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02547aam a2200349 i 4500 001 76995C20EC7011ECA6D3045741ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220615010020 008 210202s2021 enk b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781108793803 020 $a 1108793800 035 $a (OCoLC)1235871587 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d AMH $d CNTAB $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a HM631 $b .O26 2021 082 04 $a 303.4 $2 23 100 1 $a O'Connell, Jeffrey, $e author. 245 10 $a Social Darwinism / $c Jeffrey O'Connell, Michael Ruse. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 71 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Elements in the philosophy of biology 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a This Element is a philosophical history of Social Darwinism. It begins by discussing the meaning of the term, moving then to its origins, paying particular attention to whether it is Charles Darwin or Herbert Spencer who is the true father of the idea. It gives an exposition of early thinking on the subject, covering Darwin and Spencer themselves and then on to Social Darwinism as found in American thought, with special emphasis on Andrew Carnegie, and Germany with special emphasis on Friedrich von Bernhardi. Attention is also paid to outliers, notably the Englishman Alfred Russel Wallace, the Russian Peter Kropotkin, and the German Friedrich Nietzsche. From here we move into the twentieth century looking at Adolf Hitler -- hardly a regular Social Darwinian given he did not believe in evolution -- and in the Anglophone world, Julian Huxley and Edward O. Wilson, who reflected the concerns of their society.--publisher's website. 505 0 $a 1 Introduction -- 2 Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- 3 Darwin on morality -- 4 Herbert Spencer -- 5 Social Darwinism triumphant -- 6 Rejection -- 7 Darwin and Spencer redux -- 8 Social Darwinism deconstructed -- 9 Alternative philosophies -- 10 Friedrich Nietzsche -- 11 The Hitler problem -- 12 Scientific responsibility -- 13 Echoes of the past -- 14 And the world said? 650 0 $a Social Darwinism. 650 7 $a Social Darwinism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122237 700 1 $a Ruse, Michael, $e author. 776 08 $i Ebook version : $z 9781108881401 830 0 $a Cambridge elements. $p Elements in the philosophy of biology 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220615010942.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76995C20EC7011ECA6D3045741ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search