Tuesday, June 16, 2009

 

Holocaust Reliers


John Wilkins has an important post on Herbert Spencer, "Social Darwinism" and the alleged complicity of Darwin and science in the Holocaust:

When I first started to read philosophy and history I heard about this demon. His name was Herbert Spencer, and he was famous for three things:

1. Incomprehensible prose

2. Coining "Survival of the Fittest", and

3. Coming up with a "devil take the hindmost" laissez faire political philosophy that was called "social Darwinism".

I have since learned that demons are figments of the imagination, and so it is here, as well.

Read it.
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