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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?
- Increased warfare and more militant societies
- The unifying of adjoining groups
- The increasing size of groups
- Improved conditions for the world as a whole (correct)
What is the main idea of Spencer's ethical and political writings?
What is the main idea of Spencer's ethical and political writings?
- That unfit societies should be allowed to die off
- That the fittest societies should survive (correct)
- That society progresses through the increasing size of groups
- That society regresses to warfare and more militant societies
What did Spencer believe about society?
What did Spencer believe about society?
- That it regresses to warfare and more militant societies
- That it progresses through the unifying of adjoining groups
- That it progresses through the increasing size of groups (correct)
- That it should be allowed to die off if it is unfit
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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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