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From Darwin to Hitler - Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R4,320

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From Darwin to Hitler - Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback, New edition): R. Weikart

From Darwin to Hitler - Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback, New edition)

R. Weikart

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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. 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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Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	2004
Authors:	R. Weikart
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7201-9
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 Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-7201-X
Barcode:	9781403972019