Comparing Mein Kampf And The Origin Of Species By Charles Darwin

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In their work Mein Kampf (My struggle) and The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin and Darwin explains how we live by the laws that act around us that we have no control over. Hitler in his auto biography Mein Kampf he explains almost the same thing also describing that humans “cannot be subject to special laws”. I feel that the two pieces of work have the same message of natural selection being a factor in war and the way we behave, but the two authors both have their own way looking at it. Charles Darwin I fell is trying to explain the laws of life and Hitler seems like he is demanding and telling the reader what they should believe. Both of them make valid arguments but they are coming from different point of views. In the …show more content…

But he describes it with a different tone than Darwin did as he seems to talk about himself as a dictator. He does this by saying “He will then feel that in a world in which planets and suns follow circular trajectories, moons revolve around planets, and force reigns everywhere and supreme over weakness”(Hitler) explaining that he himself is natural selection and nothing else is more powerful than him. Which is why he was responsible for so many deaths and the holocaust because he felt that he was a higher being than the Jews, who he thought were in a conspiracy to take the world over. Which causes his to say “Man cannot be subject to special laws of his own.” meaning that everyone he sees as inferior has no power over

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