From Darwin to Hitler : Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany

Name: From Darwin to Hitler
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403965028
Price: 23650 KES
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ISBN: 9781403965028

2004 ed.

by R. Weikart

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1403965021

ISBN-13 9781403965028

Edition 2004 ed.

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 30th, 2004

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 500 grams

Dimensions 14.80 x 21.80 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Central Europe European history Ethics & moral philosophy European history Evolution Evolution / Evolutionary biology Ethics and moral philosophy

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In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred.

From Darwin to Hitler elucidates the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Weikart demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary "fitness" (especially intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This thinking had its biggest impact on Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism as popularly believed.

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