Was Hitler a Darwinian? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Was Hitler a Darwinian? write by Robert J. Richards. This book was released on 2013-11-06. Was Hitler a Darwinian? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 other 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.
From Darwin to Hitler
From Darwin to Hitler - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Darwin to Hitler write by R. Weikart. This book was released on 2016-09-27. From Darwin to Hitler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Hitler’s Ethic
Hitler’s Ethic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler’s Ethic write by R. Weikart. This book was released on 2009-07-20. Hitler’s Ethic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race.
Darwinian Racism
Darwinian Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darwinian Racism write by Richard Weikart. This book was released on 2022-02. Darwinian Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Award-winning historian Richard Weikart shows otherwise. According to Weikart, Darwinian evolution crucially influenced Hitler and the Nazis, and the Nazis zealously propagated evolutionary theory during the Third Reich. Inspired by arguments from both Darwin and early Darwinists, the Nazis viewed the "Nordic race" as superior to other races and set about advancing human evolution by ridding the world of "inferior" races and individuals. As Weikart also shows, these ideas circulate today among white nationalists and neo-Nazis, who routinely use Darwinian theory in their propaganda to advance a racist agenda. Darwinian Racism is careful history. It is also a wake-up call.
Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview
Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview write by Jerry Bergman. This book was released on 2012. Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bergman takes a fresh look at Germany's most influential Nazi leaders to provide compelling evidence that the rising influence of Darwinism, eugenics, and race theory in early-20th-century society set the foundation for the Nazi pursuit of engineering a German "master race" and exterminating European Jews, gypsies, Blacks, most Slavs, and the Christian religion.
