Tag: Social Darwinism | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Africa, algorithms, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, documentary, genocide, German Southwest Africa, Herero people, imperialism, Namibia, Politicians, pop culture, Racism, scientific racism, Second Reich, Social Darwinism, The Biology of the Second Reich, World War I, YouTube videos}

African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

_{John G. West
July 20, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Civil War, Darwinism, Eva Jablonka, evolution, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
July 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, California State University Stanislaus, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, ID the Future, master race, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity}

Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
May 2, 2021

Bioethics

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The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

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Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brave New World, Christianity, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, imperialism, militarism, moral responsibility, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, T.S. Eliot, Westminster Abbey, William F. Buckley Jr., William Shakespeare}

Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

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Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Civil War, Darwinism, Eva Jablonka, evolution, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
November 23, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›