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Biology as a Technology of Social Justice in Interwar Britain: Arguments from Evolutionary History, Heredity, and Human Diversity

机译:生物学作为两次世界大战之间英国社会正义的一种技术:来自进化史,遗传和人类多样性的争论

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In this article, I am concerned with the public engagements of Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, and J. B. S. Haldane. I analyze how they used the new insights into the genetics of heredity to argue against any biological foundations for antidemocratic ideologies, be it Nazism, Stalinism, or the British laissez-faire and class system. The most striking fact-considering the abuse of biological knowledge they contested-is that these biologists presented genetics itself as inherently democratic. Arguing from genetics, they developed an understanding of diversity that cuts across divisions of race, class, or gender. Human diversity rightly understood was advantageous for societal progress. Huxley, Hogben, and Haldane did not hold identical political ideals, but they all argued for democratic reforms and increased planning geared toward greater social equality, and they did so under the label of scientific humanism. Huxley took issue with the notion that evolutionary history does not carry any moral lessons for human societies. Rather than being its antithesis, evolution was the basis of human sociality. In fact, the entire future progress of individuals and communities toward a democratic world order needed to be founded on the cosmic principles of evolution-a process that had to be guided by the biological expert with a strong sense of social responsibility.
机译:在本文中,我关注Julian Huxley,Lancelot Hogben和J. B. S. Haldane的公众参与。我分析了他们如何利用对遗传遗传学的新见解来反对任何反民主意识形态的生物学基础,无论是纳粹主义,斯大林主义还是英国自由放任阶级制度。考虑到他们所质疑的生物知识的滥用,最惊人的事实是,这些生物学家将遗传学本身视为固有的民主。从遗传学出发,他们对跨种族,阶级或性别划分的多样性有了一种理解。正确理解的人类多样性有利于社会进步。赫x黎(Huxley),霍格本(Hogben)和霍尔丹(Haldane)并不抱有相同的政治理想,但他们都主张进行民主改革和增加计划,以实现更大的社会平等,并以科学人文主义为标志。赫x黎对进化史对人类社会没有任何道德上的教训持怀疑态度。进化不是人类的对立面,而是人类社会性的基础。实际上,个人和社区朝着民主世界秩序的整个未来进步都需要建立在宇宙进化原理的基础上,这一过程必须由具有强烈社会责任感的生物学专家进行指导。

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