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From Darwin to Hitler

Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany

By: R. Weikart

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From Darwin to Hitler

Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany

By: R. Weikart

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 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 was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.

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Springer

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1137109866

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Hitler’s Ethic

The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

By: R. Weikart

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Hitler’s Ethic

The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

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In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race.

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1349380733

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From Darwin to Hitler

From Darwin to Hitler

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