First Principles

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book philosophical work

First Principles is a foundational philosophical work by Herbert Spencer that outlines his synthetic philosophy, attempting to unify knowledge across the sciences, metaphysics, and ethics.

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First Principles (Herbert Spencer) ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → philosophical work →
addresses	foundations of ethics → limits of human knowledge → relationship between science and metaphysics →
aim	to establish a basis for ethics in evolutionary principles → to provide a unified system of knowledge → to reconcile science and religion →
author	Herbert Spencer →
centralConcept	law of evolution → persistence of force → relativity of knowledge → the Unknowable →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
firstEditionFormat	single volume →
genre	epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → philosophy →
hasOCLCNumber	2216744 →
hasPart	Laws of the Knowable → The Unknowable →
historicalPeriod	Victorian era →
influenced	Anglo-American philosophy → late 19th-century positivism → social Darwinism →
influencedBy	Auguste Comte → Charles Darwin → John Stuart Mill → evolutionary theory →
language	English →
mainSubject	evolutionary theory in philosophy → metaphysical principles → philosophy of science → synthetic philosophy → unification of knowledge →
notableIdea	application of evolutionary principles to cosmology → application of evolutionary principles to ethics → application of evolutionary principles to society → systematic synthesis of scientific knowledge into philosophy →
partOf	Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy →
philosophicalSchool	evolutionary philosophy → positivism →
publicationDate	1862 →
publisher	Williams and Norgate →
structure	divided into two main parts →
title	First Principles →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Herbert Spencer →	notableWork
The Principles of Sociology →	relatedWork
The Principles of Psychology (Spencer) ("First Principles (Herbert Spencer)") →	relatedWorkByAuthor
First Principles →	title