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

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...