Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Manuela Mosca 
Author-Email:
Author-Workplace-Name: Università del Salento (Lecce) - Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Economia
Title: «Io che sono darwinista». La visione di Maffeo Pantaleoni 
(«I am a Darwinist». Maffeo Pantaleoni's vision)
Abstract: Without denying the various distinct stages of Pantaleoni’s intellectual development, this work shows
how considerable was its continuity, identified here in a vision understood in Schumpeter’s sense of
«ideological bias». It is argued that Pantaleoni sought scientific legitimacy for his ideology by basing
it on a theory very fashionable at that time: Spencer’s Social Darwinism. In each of the various stages
of his work are to be found the sequence of the five subjects the vision consists of: hedonism, selection,
inequality, coercion, and progress. The study demonstrates that Pantaleoni’s motivation, even
in his most abstract of arguments, was always his hostility to socialism. Following in Spencer’s footsteps,
what he aimed at was the progressive evolution of society, which he felt was threatened by socialist
theories.
Classification-JEL: B13, B15, B3, B4
Keywords: Selezionismo; Spencer; edonismo; concorrenza; socialismo
(Selectionism; Spencer; edonism; competition; socialism)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 23-45
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201506301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:23:y:2015:1:2:p:23-45