Yoga, Eugenics, and Spiritual Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century

Put briefly: perhaps the entire evolution of the spirit is a question of the body; it is the history of the development of a higher body that emerges into our sensibility. The organic is rising to yet higher levels. Our lust for knowledge of nature is a means through which the body desires to perfec...

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Published inInternational journal of Hindu studies Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 125 - 146
Main Author Singleton, Mark
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer 01.08.2007
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Biological evolution
Consciousness
Darwinism
Eugenics
Evolution
Evolutionism
Genetics
Hinduism
Hindus
History
Indian culture
Overman
Social Darwinism
Spirituality
Yoga
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Summary:Put briefly: perhaps the entire evolution of the spirit is a question of the body; it is the history of the development of a higher body that emerges into our sensibility. The organic is rising to yet higher levels. Our lust for knowledge of nature is a means through which the body desires to perfect itself. Or rather: hundreds of thousands of experiments are made to change the nourishment, the mode of living and of dwelling in the body; consciousness and evaluations in the body, all kinds of pleasure and displeasure, are signs of these changes and experiments. In the long run, it is not a question of man at all: he is to be overcome (Nietzsche 1967: 358).[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1022-4556
1574-9282
DOI:10.1007/s11407-007-9043-7