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According to Spencer, what is the result of the process of adaptive upgrading?
According to Spencer, what is the result of the process of adaptive upgrading?
- The unifying of adjoining groups
- The increasing size of groups
- The survival of the fittest societies
- The death of unfit societies (correct)
What did Spencer argue in his ethical and political writings?
What did Spencer argue in his ethical and political writings?
- That society should progress through the increasing size of groups
- That society should regress to warfare
- That the fittest societies should survive (correct)
- That unfit societies should be permitted to die off
What did Spencer believe about society?
What did Spencer believe about society?
- That it should progress through the unifying of adjoining groups
- That it should regress to more militant societies (correct)
- That the fittest societies should survive
- That unfit societies should be permitted to die off
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- Spencer believed that society progressed through the increasing size of groups and the unifying of adjoining groups
- He also believed that societies could regress to warfare and more militant societies
- In his ethical and political writings, Spencer argued that the fittest societies should survive and that unfit societies should be permitted to die off
- The result of this process is adaptive upgrading for the world as a whole.
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