Hitler's ethic
Subtitle: the Nazi pursuit of evolutionary progress
By: Richard Weikart.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945 -- Philosophy; Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945 -- Political and social views; Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Ethics, Evolutionary; National socialism -- Philosophy; Germany -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitlers 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. This ethic underlay or influenced almost every major feature of Nazi policy: eugenics (i.e., measures to improve human heredity, including compulsory sterilization), euthanasia, racism, population expansion, offensive warfare, and racial extermination. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hitler as moral crusader and liar; title: The cult of evolutionary progress; title: Racial struggle; title: Morally upright Aryans and immoral Jews; title: Hitler's socialism : building the people's community; title: Sexual morality and population expansion; title: Controlling reproduction to improve the human species; title: The struggle for living space : war and expansionism; title: Justifying murder and genocide.