[PDF.82nt] From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany

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

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 | #735254 in Books |  Palgrave Macmillan |  2006-04-20 |  2006-02-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x.90 x5.50l,.92 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| An Origin Story for the Dark Side of Modernity|By Peter S. Bradley|One of the quandaries in thinking about the Nazi era is trying to imagine how the most scientific nation in the world could become so entranced by what we know to be obvious pseudo-scientific "race science" nonsense. It's easy to chalk the infatuation in race science and eugenics up to putatively syphilitic,| ||'One of the finest examples of intellectual history I have seen in a long while. It is insightful, thoughtful, informative, and highly readable.' - Ian Dowbiggin, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Author of A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movemen

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. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highes...

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