tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post3382143834444000207..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Richard Weikart's New Book--HITLER'S ETHICLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-25436156763359222442011-12-19T12:55:16.173+00:002011-12-19T12:55:16.173+00:00Darwin recognized that some people were carriers o...Darwin recognized that some people were carriers of inherited traits that could produce serious physical and mental birth defects. He hoped that they would refrain from having children.<br /><br />This is what I have called "good eugenics"--that people should voluntarily refrain from having children when they know the probability of serious birth defects is high. The Ashkenazi Jews do this through genetic counseling to lower the rate of Tay Sachs and other inherited diseases.Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-72306099861388523902011-12-19T10:47:19.297+00:002011-12-19T10:47:19.297+00:00could prof. Arnhart explain the meaning of the exp...could prof. Arnhart explain the meaning of the expression used by Darwin in the Descent of Man pag. 169 "the weaker and inferior members of society " for which he hopes there would be a refrain from marriage?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-33408117292681711692010-07-10T05:37:54.314+01:002010-07-10T05:37:54.314+01:00Let's not forget slavery. People believed in s...Let's not forget slavery. People believed in superior races before Darwin. Jews had a pretty hard time a couple thousand years ago, too. This is hardly something new. <br /><br />The only reason to try to connect Darwin to Hitler is from an anti-evolution position. <br /><br />Not very "ethical" to even try to engage in this argument in the first place...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-45474160609839257422009-10-31T12:27:01.840+00:002009-10-31T12:27:01.840+00:00No, I haven't overlooked Martin Luther and Chr...No, I haven't overlooked Martin Luther and Christian anti-Semitism. I discuss that in my previous posts on Weikart's writing.Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-54716401939797268792009-10-31T02:48:20.471+00:002009-10-31T02:48:20.471+00:00I think you have overlooked the most important poi...I think you have overlooked the most important point against Weikart's thesis. That is, Hitler's antisemitic ideology was actually based on traditional Christian antisemitism. Christians have been pushing this ideology ever since the early days of their religion. Virtually all the things done to the Jews by the Nazis was advocated by Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism. All of the Nazis were Christians and everyone they targeted were non-Christians. In addition to Jews, the Nazis also targeted atheists for extermination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-51285463916918914232009-09-22T22:04:33.676+01:002009-09-22T22:04:33.676+01:00The Nazies used chemistry and physics to slaughter...The Nazies used chemistry and physics to slaughter millions on and off the battlefield. Where are the books denouncing the big names in those disciplines?Boonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-77779505107987757052009-09-09T16:51:52.304+01:002009-09-09T16:51:52.304+01:00It seems to me that even objections like yours and...It seems to me that even objections like yours and Allen's grant some things about "darwinism" and its influence that are not obvious.<br /><br />For one thing, the early 20th century has been called "the eclipse of darwinism" because of the general doubt of the efficiency of "random variation and natural selection". <br /><br />And that is very important, because eugenics is dependent upon the perceived need for purposeful intervention to prevent "deterioration".<br /><br />And there are some indications that at least some of the precursors and influential contemporaries of Hitler were outspokenly anti-Darwin. <br /><br />Tom S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-9572830128305156272009-09-07T20:15:23.364+01:002009-09-07T20:15:23.364+01:00I've read enough passages from Hitler (Mein Ka...I've read enough passages from Hitler (Mein Kampf, Second Book, and being skeptical of Table Talk) and Haeckel to conclude that if Hitler didn't read Haeckel directly, he must have read followers of Haeckel (Woltmann etc.).<br /><br />Hitler appears to me to be a teleological Deistic/Theistic Evolutionist, not a Darwinist but a certainly a Social Darwinist as the term is used today as well as a social organicist (the belief that groups are organisms). <br /><br />How these evolutionary notions intersect with Blavatsky- and Steiner-derived Nazi beliefs I do not know, but Hitler himself wasn't big on mysticism like Himmler and others. There was a lot of heterogeneity in Nazi thought even at the elite level. <br /><br />I wish that such historical research could be carried out and presented by someone who didn't have an ax-grinding anti-evolutionist agenda, like Weikart obviously does.Colugonoreply@blogger.com