From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany /

From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weikart, Richard, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Eugenics > Germany > History.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Racism > Germany.
Eugenics > history > Germany.
National Socialism > history > Germany.
Ethical Relativism > history > Germany.
Biological Evolution > Germany.
History, 19th Century > Germany.
History, 20th Century > Germany.
Prejudice > Germany.
Darwinisme.
Ethiek.
Eugenetica.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Germany > Race relations.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Contributor biographical information
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 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.