Despite the common feeling that people who believe their country is the “best” have always existed, nationalism is a relatively modern movement. While people have always felt an attachment to their native land and the traditions of their parents, nationalism did not become a widely recognized se...
Eugenics is a social movement based on the belief that the genetic quality of the human race can be improved by the use of selective breeding, as well as other often morally criticized means to eliminate groups of people considered genetically inferior, while encouraging the growth of groups judg...
Nevertheless, some race theorists ex- pressed anxiety that the Aryan race, cradled in a rugged northern European climate, would languish in an industrialized and urbanized environment-a fear that led many (notably Grant, Le Conte and George Bird Grinnell) to support wilderness preservation. A ...
the Jewish religion were inferior to the Aryan race. True ethical reasoning, however, would not have resulted in the cruelty and suffering caused by Hitler's egocentric reasoning. To be an ethical thinker, you must recognize that humans are, by nature, susceptible to egotism and self-deception...
which blushes at every compromise. It is quite impossible for a man NOT to have the qualities and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his constitution, whatever appearances may suggest to the contrary. This is the problem of race. Granted that one knows something of the parents, it...
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The theories of Marxism were written by Karl Marx and the theories of race development and the “Aryan Race” was written by Karl Ritter, and these two opposing theories would shape political and academic thought that shaped Western Culture in Europe, and was exported to the United States. ...
3. What Is a Scientific Fact? 43 'Facts are beyond dispute', it is often said. But if this were the whole truth of the matter, it would be nonsensical to make the nowadays common contrast between scientific facts and other facts. Mostly in everyday life, we have to speak naively ...
At the same time, while many of the earlier anti-Jewish edicts were being rescinded, there was a growing Nationalist movement which perpetuated, through most of Europe, the superiority of the "Aryan" people over those who were ethnically Jewish. ...
hierarchy. It was one that, in the interwar period in Germany, became aligned with Nazism. Because the layers in nature can readily be framed as progress toward a higher ideal, many with Nazi tendencies embraced the stratification theories with the twist that the Aryan race was the hig...