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From Darwin to Hitler - Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Hardcover, 2004 ed.) Loot Price: R3,801
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From Darwin to Hitler - Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

R. Weikart

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"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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2004
First published: 2004
Authors: R. Weikart
Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: 2004 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6502-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-4039-6502-1
Barcode: 9781403965028

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