A «world of struggle»
Nationalism, race, and Darwinian evolutionary biology
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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.28551Keywords:
National Socialism, evolutionary biology, race, Adolf Hitler, Charles R. Darwin
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The first and second sections of this article provide historiographical and conceptual context for the thesis that there is an organic link between National Socialist race doctrine and the semantic field of Darwinian evolutionary biology. I then address four fallacies implicit in this thesis, namely inter-theoretical ontological reductionism, illegitimate biological affiliation, the misunderstanding of Darwinian evolutionism, and the impossible transition from biological being to moral duty.
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Pedro Jesús Teruel, University of Valencia
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