Spenserova kritika državnog intervencionizma
Spencer's Criticism Of State Intervetionism

Summary/Abstract: Herbert Spencer was one of the most famous critics of socialism and state intervention in the second half of the nineteenth century, and one of the most important thinkers of the Victorian era. The subject of this work is Spencer's criticism of state intervention from the perspective of the philosophy of individual freedom. It is based on the law of equal freedom, which is the basic principle of Spenser’s ethics. It is the law on which a correct system of equality is to be based. It expresses the formula of absolute justice, and absolutely right conduct is conduct having no concomitant of pain, either to self or others. Since the law of equal freedom is the basis for the construction of Spencer's liberal and individualistic thought, in the paper will also be discussed criticism of an interventionist state and socialism as a doctrine which is incompatibile with the law of equal freedom. Thus, in the first part of article author examines law of equal freedom, and in the second part activities that go beyond the proper sphere of government.

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