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Book 2006

From Darwin to Hitler

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2006
  • Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  • Evolution
  • History
  • Eugenics
  • Systems Of Ethics
  • Anthropology - Cultural
  • Europe - Germany
  • Discrimination & Racism

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."