From Darwin to Hitler
Subtitle: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781403965028
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Evolution; Sociology; Europe - Germany; Eugenics; Systems Of Ethics; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Racism; History: World; Germany; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Germany; Discrimination & Racism; Ethics, Evolutionary
First sentence: Darwin neatly summed up his view of ethics and morality in his Autobiography, stating that one who does not believe in God or an afterlife-as he did not-"can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best one."