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| Accesso online: | https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/nun-overview.xml |
| Autore principale: | La Vergata, Antonello, 1954-
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| Titolo: | Evolution and war, 1871-1918 / Antonello La Vergata. |
| Abstract: | Darwin's theories were often used to argue that war is an inevitable and beneficent form of the struggle for life and an important factor of biological as well as social improvement. However, the different forms of "war Darwinism" did not add anything substantially new to the traditional arguments for the justification of war. Quite to the contrary, it was these arguments that, like many other pre-Darwinian ways of thinking, influenced the reception of Darwin's ideas. Instances from England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States show that the aggressive and militarist use of Darwinian arguments was not a German speciality. Furthermore, in many works of German apologetics of war Darwinism played a much less important role than it is commonly supposed. Indeed, some of the authors who justified war did not like Darwinism, either social or biological. Finally, Darwinism could also be used to condemn war. But those who did so shared the same conceptual framework of their adversaries: far from rejecting their biologism, they accepted its premisses, although they came to different conclusions |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Nuncius A. 9, fasc. 1 (1994), p. 143-163 |
| Discipline: | Politica e scienza--Studi. |
| Keyword: | Keywords--Darwinismo. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. Secolo XX. |
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