While most avoid the tedious tasks of reading Spencer's massive volumes ( filled as they are with long passages explicating the organic analogy, with reference to cells, simple organisms, animals, humans and society ), there are some important insights that have quietly influenced many contemporary theorists, including Talcott Parsons, in his early work " The Structure of Social Action " ( 1937 ).
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Insofar as one can understand the substantive nature of his moral ideal, however, it seems deeply flawed, and indeed itself morally indefensible . " Describing Unger's moral theory in " Knowledge and Politics " as " Platonic and Marxist, " Richards identified in the book an " organic analogy " between the state and a " complete, fully developed, and abundant human self . " According to Richards, " [ o ] rganic analogies, whether in Plato, Marx, or Unger, are intrinsically totalitatian . ".
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