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In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism

Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Handboeken en inleidingen. --- Eugenics - Germany - History --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Racism - Germany --- Germany - Race relations --- Eugenics --- Racism --- Germany

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Introduction. Part One: How Pluralism and Naturalism Make for Natural Moralities. 1. Pluralism and Ambivalence. 2. Pluralistic Relativism. 3. Objections and Replies. Part Two: Constraints on Natural Moralities. 4. Identity, Flourishing, and Relationship. 5. Community and Liberal Theory. 6. Does Psychological Realism Constrain the Content of Moralities?. Part Three: Having Confidence in Our Moral Commitments. 7. Moral Reasons -- Internal and External. 8. Morality and Need. 9. Coping with Moral Difference. Bibliography

Ethical relativism. --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ethical relativism --- Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Moral relativism --- Relativism, Ethical --- Relativity (Ethics) --- Values --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- General ethics