From Darwin to Hitler

From Darwin to Hitler : Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany by Richard Weikart

This is an important study of a subject that is insufficiently addressed by mainstream Darwinian theorists: the disastrous effects of Darwin's theory of natural selection on views of ethics and morality, whether religious or secularist Enlightenment. There is something monumentally awry in the whole foundation of Darwin's theory, and yet it seems noone in the standard scholarly fields sees fit, or has the nerve, to say so. The subject is cleverly shunted aside under the rubric of Social Darwinism, as attention is deflected from the seminal influence of none other than Darwin. Darwin's theory is not able to explicate the subject of morality, a point lost in the surge of positivism that influenced Darwin and his generation. This important study takes up the slack where mainstream scholars are silent, devious, and/or too intimidated by the Paradigm to realize or point to the obvious, Darwin's disastrous influence on figures such as Hitler. Those who dislike the Discovery Institute will probably disregard this book. But the scandal won't go away. Not even Holocaust scholars seem able to face the reality here.