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From Darwin to Hitler
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.
Hitler's Religion
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Hitler’s Ethic
In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race.
Are You the Image of God Or a Cosmic Accident?
Dr Richard Weikart argues that if we are honest about our intuitions, our intuitions tell us that human life has intrinsic value, transcendent meaning, purpose. If so, the best, actually the only, explanation for intrinsic meaning and purpose is a Creator (all other meaning would be extrinsic fictions). He further argues that if we truly believe that life has no intrinsic value, the devaluing of life quite typically follows.
Reflections on the Marxist theory of history
A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘End of History’, anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply ‘another world is possible’. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as being the naive empiricism of traditional historians and the relativism of the postmodernists. ...
The Social Scientific Gaze
The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social Scientific Gaze examines the discursive formation of academic social science in the historical context of the 'social question', that is, the protracted and wide-ranging discussions on the social problems of modernity that were being debated with increased intensity during the nineteenth century. Empirically, the study focuses on the Lorén Foundation, a combined private funding agency and early resea...
The Ethics of the New Eugenics
Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today’s reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.
Nazistowska eugenika
Pseudonauka zwana eugeniką – zaistniała w wielu krajach w ostatnich latach XIX i na początku XX wieku. Najbardziej entuzjastycznie doktryna ta została przyjęta w Niemczech, gdzie stosowanie teorii eugenicznej spotkało się z wyjątkową przychylnością władz. Była postrzegana jako odpowiedź na wszystkie pozornie nierozwiązywalne problemy zdrowotne i społeczne ludzkości i promowana jako substytut ortodoksyjnych przekonań religijnych. Program zrodzony z często sprzecznych opinii rozpoczął się, pod rządami nazistów, od przymusowej sterylizacji tysięcy obywateli Niemiec, następnie przekształcił się w masowe mordowanie najbardziej bezbronnej ludności, by ostatecznie ew...
