Tag: Social Darwinism

February 12, 2025

The New Age of Eugenics and Darwin’s Warning Against It

When societies embrace eugenic thinking, they betray the moral progress that Darwin believed in.

September 26, 2016

Was Dewey a Darwinian? Yes! Yes! Yes! An Interview with Trevor Pearce

April 10, 2012

The Taint of ‘Social Darwinism’

In the interests of historical accuracy, however, it should be clearly recognized that “social Darwinism” has very little to do with the ideas developed by Charles Darwin in “On the Origin of Species.”

February 22, 2016

Was Hitler a Darwinian? No! No! No!

Robert J. Richards examines the widely held view that Darwinian thinking was somehow responsible for the atrocities of the Hitler regime during World War II.

July 30, 2015

The Case for Rescuing Tainted Words

October 25, 2016

Toward A New Social Darwinism

The biggest victim of the stigmatized view of Social Darwinism has been all of us, by preventing the application of evolutionary theory to public policy until very recently.

January 5, 2016

Social Darwinism, A Case of Designed Ventriloquism

The study of social Darwinism in the 19th century shows us when our inner desires are structured in a complete, totalizing, and perfect way that provides continuity and stability to the nation, this is always done at the expense of science.

July 5, 2015

Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism

The term "Social Darwinism" is associated primarily with the moral justification of inequality, resulting in policies such as withholding welfare for the poor, colonialism, eugenics, and genocide. We would like to confront this legacy directly.

September 2, 2015

Social Darwinism: Myth and Reality