BIOL 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Darwinism, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Parasitism
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Biol 3200 lecture 3 sept 26, 2017. The two-way traffic between social theory and darwinian evolution: nature and society. Darwin and sociopolitical thought: darwinism was used as a natural law to explain the social world. Social darwinism: darwin was used to support positions from most progressive to most reactionary. Does evolution imply progress: progress is ill-defined and value laden, ca(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:373)easured i(cid:374) a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:449)a(cid:455, not used in biology today. In the 19th century, evolution was used as progress for nature and society. Social darwinism of the laissez-faire: due to american constitution, william sumner (political economics prof at yale) was a preacher of social darwinism. Andrew carnegie: steel tycoon, law of competition, may be bad for individual but good for a group. If they did they applied it to international relations: conservatives were reluctant to accept evolutionary theory, u(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilized ra(cid:272)es (cid:449)ere (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g take(cid:374) o(cid:448)er (cid:271)(cid:455) a (cid:862)superior(cid:863) so(cid:272)ial order.
