Od Imago Dei k Übermensch: od Bohom stvorenej bytosti k „produktu cistej biológie“
From Imago Dei to Übermensch: from God-created being to ”product of pure biology”

Summary/Abstract: This study presents two hypotheses answering the question of the origins of racism in Western civilization. According to the first, it was the shift from a religious, theocentric understanding of human being to a secular, anthropocentric understanding of human being that contributed to the emergence of an understanding of race as a biological, essential and static entity. The second hypothesis shows that in order for this understanding of race to be transformed into racism, racial discourse had to penetrate into politics. Racism, in order to achieve a new social progress that was supposed to overcome real or alleged (national) stagnation and backwardness, used racial discourse to rewrite with it the multiple and changing variability of human physical (biological) traits, in terms of the ‘eternal’, immutable, ‘hereditary’ and insurmountable essential difference of the human races.

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