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- catalog abstract ""In this work of intellectual history, 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 had overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers, like Ernst Haeckel and Ludwig Buchner, supported a moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary "fitness" (especially in terms of intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Weikart concludes that Darwinism played a key role not only in the rise of eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all ultimately embraced by the Nazis. He convincingly makes the disturbing argument that Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles rather than nihilistic ones. From Darwin to Hitler is a provocative yet balanced work that should encourage a rethinking of the historical impact that Darwinism had on the course of events in the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13225226.
- catalog coverage "Germany Race relations.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In this work of intellectual history, 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 had overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers, like Ernst Haeckel and Ludwig Buchner, supported a moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary "fitness" (especially in terms of intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Weikart concludes that Darwinism played a key role not only in the rise of eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all ultimately embraced by the Nazis. He convincingly makes the disturbing argument that Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles rather than nihilistic ones.".
- catalog description "From Darwin to Hitler is a provocative yet balanced work that should encourage a rethinking of the historical impact that Darwinism had on the course of events in the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-303) and index.".
- catalog description "The origin of ethics and the rise of moral relativism -- Evolutionary progress as the highest good -- Organizing evolutionary ethics -- The value of life and the value of death -- The specter of inferiority : devaluing the disabled and "unproductive" -- The science of racial inequality -- Controlling reproduction : overturning traditional sexual morality -- Killing the "unfit" -- War and peace -- Racial struggle and extermination -- Hitler's ethic.".
- catalog extent "xi, 312 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1403965021".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Germany Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "2006 A-034".
- catalog subject "305.8/00943 22".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution Germany.".
- catalog subject "Ethical Relativism Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Evolutionary.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics Germany History.".
- catalog subject "HQ 755.5.G3 W421f 2004".
- catalog subject "HQ755.5.G3 W435 2004".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century Germany.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century Germany.".
- catalog subject "National Socialism Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Prejudice Germany.".
- catalog subject "Racism Germany.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The origin of ethics and the rise of moral relativism -- Evolutionary progress as the highest good -- Organizing evolutionary ethics -- The value of life and the value of death -- The specter of inferiority : devaluing the disabled and "unproductive" -- The science of racial inequality -- Controlling reproduction : overturning traditional sexual morality -- Killing the "unfit" -- War and peace -- Racial struggle and extermination -- Hitler's ethic.".
- catalog title "From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany / Richard Weikart.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".