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Was Hitler a Darwinian? (Paperback, New)
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Was Hitler a Darwinian? (Paperback, New)
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In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the
trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin
introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral
values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard
interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has
rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately
selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed
by the master's German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and
led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J.
Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close
historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional
fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with
a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many
topics-including the character of Darwin's chief principles of
natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel
Wallace over man's big brain, the role of language in human
development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his
views had in common with Haeckel's, and the general problem of
progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on
the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler's
atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its
boldest.
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