Much of EJS
's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill
, Jeremy Bentham
, and Auguste Comte
. She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review...
Occupation
Herbert Spencer
Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the...
Cultural formation
Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...
