From Darwin to Hitler
Subtitle: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781403972019
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Evolution; History; Eugenics; Systems Of Ethics; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Germany; History / Germany; Discrimination & Racism; Ethics, Evolutionary; Germany; Racism
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."