Analysis Of Spencer's Sympathy Theory

Spencer is one of the most important philosophers in the philosophy history in England, but now, we didn't agree with some of his own idea in philosophy. In our country, there have scarcely any people work with his Sympathy Theory. The text will basis one of Spencer's productions named Social Static, and also gets some existing research production to make a discuss with his Sympathy Theory. The text will talk about the status, definition and characteristic of the Sympathy Theory.The first part will let you know the status of Spencer's Sympathy Theory. In Social Static, Spencer use social evolutionism to be the hereunder to make four items of the ethic rule. He consider that the four rules is the elements of that how to keep the society steady. And the steady of the four rules is sympathy.Then the next part will expatiate that how to make the Sympathy Theory have a wonderful definition. The text will tell you what means sympathy? And why some kind of "sympathy" is real sympathy in Spencer's mind, some kind is not? The two questions derivation a important problem that what is the mean idea of Spencer's Sympathy Theory? In fact, Spencer expatiate his theory with the morality evolutionism. This part is emphasis of this text.Then the core parts of the text will use a contrast which between Spencer's Sympathy Theory and the Sympathy Ethic Creed in United Kingdom to tell you what the characteristic of Spencer's idea is. On the one hand, Spencer also gets some great thinking from the Sympathy Ethic Creed in United Kingdom. But on the other hand, he also makes some different kind of idea with the old theory. This part tell that the hole text are surround about the two important question which is the genesis of conscience and be good for myself or be good for other one, to make a contrast. Some scholars get some different idea when they investigate the Sympathy, so there also have many different kinds of Sympathy Theory. Spencer also is one of them.The last part of the text will give the whole text a sum up. You can get all the answer of the questions in the text, and get a summing up.