Darwinism

Though Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper, was a profound feminist and merited as an icon for feminism and other social rights activism, Gilman left her opinions on race, class, and nativism up in the air, leaving her audience to ponder on her stance in this part of intellectual history. Ganobcsik-Williams comments on the critics of Gilman who claim the reasons for Gilman’s lack of mentioning are her naiveté and ignorance of being influenced by the traditional…

Wells very clearly depicts what could happen if humans continue on the path that they are in which involves destroying the earth and an extreme case of Darwinism. By arguing that this book is about the evolution of mankind we overlook the very obvious: that humans are not the superior species. Ultimately, the time traveler notices that in the future there is no human life just green slime which is the only…

Genetic engineering is the manipulation of genes in an organism with the intention of making that organism better in some way. Scientific breakthroughs such as genetic engineering can have both positive and negative impacts. The history of scientific theories to explain human evolution and development demonstrate how these theories can help to better understand and improve human existence, but can also be perversely applied to support racism. One major positive impact of genetic engineering is…

After World War 1 America was viewed as a superior power in the world, the economy boomed, people were living lavish and comfortable, and a way of life quickly devolved that was dramatically different from the one people once knew . The 1920’s was a pivotal time in America’s History. It was a time when morals were lost, social revolutions were fought and a new “urban culture” was born. These new ideas and philosophies were so pivotal that America 96 years later is still running off the fumes of…

income areas, but there is. And even if wealth was more equally distributed and education in these areas was on par with more prestigious schools, it still doesn’t address prejudices towards minority students. In Matthew Hutson’s article “Social Darwinism Isn’t Dead”, Hutson says that it isn’t that the less fortunate are less “fit” to succeed than the wealthy, but the perspective of the wealthy is to believe that they deserve to have what they do because they are somehow innately better or…

Milton Friedman is a conservative. Although in his work, Capitalism and Freedom he routinely refers to himself and others who think like him as liberals he is referring to liberals from the 19th century in Europe. During this time, liberal was called “Classical Liberalism” and this is equivalent to the modern day libertarian. For example, Classical Liberals believe in ending state involvement in religion, free trade, and freedom of speech. The switch in terms is specific with regards to…

political and economic power so they could still manipulate the Delhi. When faced with conflict with India, Britain tended to put on “the good guy face” while having secret intentions. This can be seen in their British attitude of being superior, Social Darwinism ideals, and being blatantly racist to people of…

Lamarck described that living beings acquired traits during the course of their lives based on the needs of the organism, and these traits could then be passed on to the offspring of the organism. For example, according to Lamarckism, a giraffe has a long neck because initially, the giraffe wished for a long neck in order to feed on tall plants, and over the course of the giraffe’s life, its neck progressively lengthened as a result. This “change” would then be passed onto the giraffe’s…

Since the horrors of WWII and the Nazi War Crimes, there has been a fear in society and academia of returning to the biological thinking that led to those extremes. However, recently there has been some popularity in the field of evolutionary psychology. Bruce Bower explains that evolutionary psychologists claim that social behavior comes from our biology (Bruce Bower (1991) “Darwin’s Minds” Science News: 140, pp 232-234). Bower also claims that these theories stem from the work of Charles…

think about me now”? They are strictly religious so they cannot know about my conversion to atheism. So I decided to keep this secret to myself. That day that I experienced that this religion was false to me, it helped me convert to atheism and Darwinism. If it weren’t for that video, without it I would have still have been a Pentecostal until this day so I give thanks to the creator of that…