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100 1 $aWeikart, Richard,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96120254
245 10 $aFrom Darwin to Hitler :$bevolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany /$cRichard Weikart.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2004.
300 $axi, 312 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-303) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tLaying new foundations for ethics -- $g1.$tThe origin of ethics and the rise of moral relativism -- $g2.$tEvolutionary progress as the highest good -- $g3.$tOrganizing evolutionary ethics -- $g2.$tDevaluing human life -- $g4.$tThe value of life and the value of death -- $g5.$tThe specter of inferiority : devaluing the disabled and "unproductive" -- $g6.$tThe science of racial inequality -- $g3.$tEliminating the "inferior ones" -- $g7.$tControlling reproduction : overturning traditional sexual morality -- $g8.$tKilling the "unfit" -- $g9.$tWar and peace -- $g10.$tRacial struggle and extermination -- $g4.$tImpacts -- $g11.$tHitler's ethic.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEugenics$zGermany$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125156
650 0 $aEthics, Evolutionary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045104
650 0 $aRacism$zGermany.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110364
651 0 $aGermany$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007651
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e0f9-aa
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2003065613.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e3i3-aa
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003065613-b.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003065613-t.html
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