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Social Statics (1851)

Spencer’s first major work of political philosophy in which he attempts to lay the basis for a limited state on a rigorous development of a doctrine of natural rights. He begins with a defense of his “first principle” ’that every man, may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man.” From that, he argues, follows all other rights.

Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed, (London: John Chapman, 1851).

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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
the doctrine of expediency.
The Doctrine of the Moral Sense.
LEMMA I.
LEMMA II.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
definition of morality.
CHAPTER II.
the evanescence of evil.
CHAPTER III.
the divine idea, and the conditions of its realization.
PART II.
CHAPTER IV.
derivation of a first principle.
CHAPTER V.
secondary derivation of a first principle.
CHAPTER VI.
first principle.
CHAPTER VII.
application of this first principle.
CHAPTER VIII.
the rights of life and personal liberty.
CHAPTER IX.
the right to the use of the earth.
CHAPTER X.
the right of property.
CHAPTER XI.
the right of property in ideas.
CHAPTER XII.
the right of property in character.
CHAPTER XIII.
the right of exchange.
CHAPTER XIV.
the right of free speech.
CHAPTER XV.
further rights.
CHAPTER XVI.
the rights of women.
CHAPTER XVII.
the rights of children.
PART III.
CHAPTER XVIII.
political rights.
CHAPTER XIX.
the right to ignore the state.
CHAPTER XX.
the constitution of the statea.
CHAPTER XXI.
the duty of the state.
CHAPTER XXII.
the limit of state-duty.
CHAPTER XXIII.
the regulation of commerce.
CHAPTER XXIV.
religious establishments.
CHAPTER XXV.
poor-laws.
CHAPTER XXVI.
national education.
CHAPTER XXVII.
government colonization.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
currency, postal arrangements, etc.
PART IV.
CHAPTER XXX.
general considerations.
CHAPTER XXXI.
summary.
CHAPTER XXXII.
conclusion.

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