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Author Weikart, Richard, 1958-

Title From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany / Richard Weikart.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ755.5.G3 W435 2004    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 312 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-303) and index.
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.
Subject Eugenics -- Germany -- History.
Eugenics.
Germany.
History.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Racism -- Germany.
Racism.
Germany -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism.
ISBN 1403965021
9781403965028
140397201X
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