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Richard Weikart

    Questo autore approfondisce l'impatto del darwinismo sulla società e sull'ideologia tedesca. Il suo lavoro documenta meticolosamente i collegamenti tra l'evoluzione naturalistica, l'eugenetica, il razzismo e, in ultima analisi, l'ideologia nazista. Esplora come il pensiero evolutivo abbia permeato le considerazioni etiche, il militarismo e le teorie razziali all'interno della Germania. La sua vasta esperienza nella storia intellettuale tedesca ed europea moderna conferisce profondità e precisione alle sue analisi acute.

    From Darwin to Hitler
    • From Darwin to Hitler

      Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany

      • 328pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      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.

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