The Herbert Spencer Diavlog | Mark Francis & Will Wilkinson [Free Will]

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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics

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01:25 What's so interesting about Herbert Spencer?
16:24 Spencer's misunderstood evolutionary ideas
28:53 Spencer's scientific optimism
39:51 Being a liberal without being an individualist
52:25 Valuing tradition without being a conservative
57:37 What would Spencer say about today's politics?

Mark Francis (Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life) and Will Wilkinson (Niskanen Center, Vox, The Fly Bottle)

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Recorded on October 15, 2007

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