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The materialism controversy (German: Materialismusstreit) was a debate in the mid-19th century regarding the implications for current worldviews of the natural sciences. In the 1840s, a new type of materialism was developed, influenced by the methodological advancements in biology and the decline of idealistic philosophy .
Ernst Haeckel – Evolution's controversial artist. A slide-show essay; Kunstformen der Natur (from biolib.de) Kunstformen der Natur (Digitization from Phaidra) PNG alpha-transparencies of Haeckel's "Kustformen der natur" Proteus – Animated documentary film on Haeckel's life and work; Ernst Haeckel Haus and Museum in Jena; Schmidt, H. (1934).
The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism—often expressed using Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—is a historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo of an animal, from fertilization to gestation or hatching (), goes through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the ...
The first half of the book explores Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law (recapitulation)—the discredited idea that embryonic developmental stages replay the evolutionary transitions of adult forms of an organism's past descendants—and how this idea influenced thinking in biology, theology, and psychology.
Haeckel divided human beings into ten races, of which the Caucasian was the highest and the primitives were doomed to extinction. [79] Haeckel was also an advocate of the out of Asia theory by writing that the origin of humanity was to be found in Asia; he believed that Hindustan (South Asia) was the actual location where the first humans had ...
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League (London and New York: Macdonald and American Elsevier, 1971) ISBN 0444196641 Haeckel 's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology (New York: Peter Lang: 1998) ISBN 0820441082
The dust-up over Advanced Placement Psychology courses in Florida exposes the lie of the parental rights discourse in that state and elsewhere, writes Neil J. Young.
[4] He discusses the influence on Freud of the otolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess and the biologist Ernst Haeckel. [5] Webster writes that while Ernest Jones wrote The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953-1957) with the avowed objective of correcting a "mendacious legend" about Freud, Jones replaced that negative with a positive legend. Webster ...