Social Statics

Narrators: Nesanel Bechhofer, Craig Franklin, Gerwin Kramer, Lucretia B., Playonwords, Jim Locke, THBosc, Kalynda, Larry Wilson, ABFries

Number of Chapters: 40

Length: 17 hours and 53 minutes

Language: English

Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath Herbert Spencer. In it, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society, saying for example that "It is clear that any being whose constitution is to be moulded into fitness for new conditions of existence must be placed under those conditions. Or, putting the proposition specifically — it is clear that man can become adapted to the social state, only by being retained in the social state. This granted, it follows that as man has been, and is still, deficient in those feelings which, by dictating just conduct, prevent the perpetual antagonism of individuals and their consequent disunion, some artificial agency is required by which their union may be maintained. Only by the process of adaptation itself can be produced that character which makes social equilibrium spontaneous."
Despite its commonly being attributed to this book, it was not until his Principles of Biology of 1864 that Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest", which he would later apply to economics and biology. This was a key tenet of so-called Social Darwinism.
Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics "the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written. (Wikipedia)

Preface and Introduction: The Doctrine of Expediency, The Doctrine of the Moral Sense (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Introduction: Lemma I (Craig Franklin)

Introduction: Lemma II (Craig Franklin)

Part 1, Chapter 1, Definition of Morality (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 1, Chapter 2, The Evanescence of Evil (Gerwin Kramer)

Part 1, Chapter 3, The Divine Idea; and the Conditions of its Realization (Gerwin Kramer)

Part 2, Chapter 4, Derivation of a First Principle (Gerwin Kramer)

Part 2, Chapter 5, Secondary Derivation of a First Principle (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 2, Chapter 6, First Principle (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 2, Chapter 7, Application of this First Principle, Chapter 8, The Rights of Life and Personal Liberty (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 2, Chapter 9, The Right to the Use of the Earth (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 2, Chapter 10, The Right of Property (Nesanel Bechhofer)

Part 2, Chapter 11, The Right of Property in Idea, Chapter 12, The Right of Property in Character (Lucretia B.)

Part 2, Chapter 13, The Right of Exchange, Chapter 14, The Right of Free Speech, Chapter 15, Further Rights (Lucretia B.)

Part 2, Chapter 16, The Rights of Women, Part 1 (Lucretia B.)

Part 2, Chapter 16, The Rights of Women, Part 2 (Lucretia B.)

Part 2, Chapter 17, The Rights of Children, Part 1 (Lucretia B.)

Part 2, Chapter 17, The Rights of Children, Part 2 (Lucretia B.)

Part 3, Chapter 18, Political Rights (playonwords)

Part 3, Chapter 19, The Right to Ignore the State (playonwords)

Part 3, Chapter 20, The Constitution of the State, Part 1 (playonwords)

Part 3, Chapter 20, The Constitution of the State, Part 2 (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 21, The Duty of the State, Part 1 (THBosc)

Part 3, Chapter 21, The Duty of the State, Part 2 (THBosc)

Part 3, Chapter 22, The Limit of State-Duty, Part 1 (Kalynda)

Part 3, Chapter 22, The Limit of State-Duty, Part 2 (Kalynda)

Part 3, Chapter 23, The Regulation of Commerce (playonwords)

Part 3, Chapter 24, Religious Establishments (Larry Wilson)

Part 3, Chapter 25, Poor-Laws (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 26, National Education, Part 1 (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 26, National Education, Part 2 (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 27, Government Colonization (THBosc)

Part 3, Chapter 28, Sanitary Supervision, Part 1 (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 28, Sanitary Supervision, Part 2 (Jim Locke)

Part 3, Chapter 29, Currency, Postal Arrangements (THBosc)

Part 4, Chapter 30, General Considerations, Part 1 (Jim Locke)

Part 4, Chapter 30, General Considerations, Part 2 (Jim Locke)

Part 4, Chapter 30, General Considerations, Part 3 (ABFries)

Part 4, Chapter 31, Summary (ABFries)

Part 4, Chapter 32, Conclusion (THBosc)

The audiobook Social Statics falls under the genres of Business & Economics. It is written by Herbert Spencer.

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