From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and

From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany
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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.
Country USA
Brand MACMILLAN
Manufacturer Palgrave Macmillan
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781403972019
ReleaseDate 2006-02-16
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781403972019

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