Progress, Poverty, and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and MalthusPsychology Press, 1997 - 151 Seiten Are poverty, misery, famine, disease and war inevitably part of the human condition? Will the creations of science become uncontrollable and socially dangerous, like Frankenstein's monster? Or can science and education create a world of material plenty - a war-free world, where the benevolent, creative and intellectual sides of human nature will have a chance to flourish? This book tries to answer these questions by tracing the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was a debate in which the Utopian vision of optimists such as the Marquis de Condorcet and William Godwin was opposed by those such as Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that the benefits of scientific progress would inevitably be nullified by the growth of the global population. This book follows that debate, which also involved people such as Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Ricardo, Mill and Darwin. In a final chapter, the question of who was right is examined from the vantage-point of our own times. |
Inhalt
Condorcet | 1 |
Godwin | 13 |
Frankensteins Monster | 41 |
Malthus | 55 |
The Iron Law | 77 |
Who Was Right? | 95 |
Condorcets Sur ladmission des Femmes | 121 |
Bibliography | 130 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agriculture Antoine Nicolas Caritat became become believed birth control birth rates Burke Burke's Byron Caleb Williams Cambridge University Press carrying capacity Charles Charles Darwin Condorcet cultural Daniel Malthus Darwin death rate developing countries disease Earth economic growth Edmund Burke Eighteenth Century Britain energy England English environment equality Essay exponential famine Ford Lectures France French future global population growing H.N. Coleridge happiness Holcroft human ideas improvement increase Industrial Jane Jean Antoine Nicolas labour land laws limit living mankind Marie Jean Antoine Marquis Marquis de Condorcet marriage married Mary Wollstonecraft Mary's million misery moral natural Paris Political Justice poor population growth progress Prometheus published annually reform Revolution Ricardo Robert Malthus Rousseau Samuel Taylor Coleridge Scandinavia Shelley social society soon species Thomas Holcroft Thomas Paine vols London Washington William Godwin woman World Conservation Union World Resources Institute Worldwatch Institute Worldwatch Paper writing York
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