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Social Darwinism
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Social Darwinism
A look at the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory of "survival of the fittest" on the development of questionable business practices and American politics in late 19th-century.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
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1992
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"This study will discuss how Darwin's theory of natural selection was construed as a justification for questionable business practices and how it impacted American political philosophy during the latter 19th century.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theories can hardly be overestimated with respect to the scientific community and society in general. As Hudson writes, "Within a decade after the Civil War practically every important American scientist had been converted to Darwin's theory of biological evolution, and Herbert Spencer's "social Darwinism" was equally influential. Indeed, as early as 1872, the Atlantic Monthly was able to report that within the scientific community 'natural selection, had quite won the day in Germany and England, and very nearly won it in America'" (Hudson, 1973, p. 263)."
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