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From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany by Richard Weikart (auth.) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2006

Who reads From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany?

Author

Richard Weikart (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781403972019

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Science

Rating

4.12 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13