In Tracing the Role of Social Darwinism in Instigating World War I, Don't Forget the Role of Hegel

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After watching the new short documentary from Discovery Institute, The Biology of the Second Reich: Social Darwinism and the Origins of World War I, our Center for Science & Culture colleague Nancy Pearcey had this comment:



I would like to point out that Hegel also played a major role in the exaltation of war -- especially among German thinkers. In fact, Nietzsche went so far as to say, "without Hegel, there would have been no Darwin." Hegel taught that a pantheistic Absolute Spirit was evolv...
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Published on August 19, 2014 17:58
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