From Darwin to Hitler [electronic resource] : Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany / by R. Weikart.
From Darwin to Hitler
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137109866 978-1-137-10986-6
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5339
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2004.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 312 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Europe, Central __ History.
Europe __ History.
History, Modern.
Evolution (Biology).
Ethics.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
European History.
Modern History.
Evolutionary Biology.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Europe __ History.
History, Modern.
Evolution (Biology).
Ethics.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
European History.
Modern History.
Evolutionary Biology.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
