Name: Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (en Inglés)
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Author: Robert J. Richards

portada Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (en Inglés)

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Robert J. Richards

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780226058931

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (en Inglés)

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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.