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From Darwin to Hitler | Prof. Richard Weikart
How did Darwin’s theory influence social and moral thinking in the modern world? In this livestream, Prof. Richard Weikart explores the argument that Darwinian ideas significantly influenced ethical thinking in Germany prior to the rise of Nazism. Drawing from his book From Darwin to Hitler, Weikart examines the connections between evolutionary thought, eugenics, and changing views on the value of human life, offering a thought-provoking perspective on the intellectual roots of some of the twentieth century’s darkest events.
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Prof. Richard Weikart
Richard Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus, and author of From Darwin to Hitler, and several other books. He completed his Ph.D. in modern European history at the University of Iowa in 1994, receiving the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Sciences for the best dissertation in that field. His revised dissertation, Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein, was published in 1999. His most recent book is Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing (2024).
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