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Immanuel Kant – militarist, racist, proto-fascist and anti-Semite
| September 29, 2010 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
Discussions of Kant usually focus on his main philosophical ideas – empiricism, rationalism, ethics, epistemology and whatnot. These ideas place him in the front rank of modern Western philosophers (though far below the ancients, in my opinion). If we look at Kant from a different angle, however, another picture emerges. Concerning his militarism, people…
EXCERPT: Darwin, Evolution, Haeckel, Hitler and Mein Kampf
| April 1, 2009 | Posted by admin under Excerpts, Hitler |
So much of National Socialism can be found in the Folkish movement that it is not surprising two major studies have located the origins of Hitler’s ideology there. Viereck’s Meta-politics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind focuses on the ideas of Wagner. Mosse’s The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich focuses on broader intellectual trends and currents of which Wagner was only a representative. Viereck spends more time elaborating on the Folkish roots in romanticism, especially in philosophy, while Mosse concentrates more on the spread of Folkish ideas through German society in the 19th and early 20th centuries-but in spite of their differences, both studies have a lot in common. Taken together, they provide a significant part of the explanation for Hitler.
Hitler and Eugenics, Dawkins and Boteach, Concepts of God
| February 9, 2009 | Posted by admin under eugenics, Excerpts, Richard Dawkins |
That Hitler valued science is insufficiently appreciated. Some quotes from his Table Talk could easily have been made by such apostles of the New Atheism and enemies of Christianity as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins. For example, he reportedly stated that people were attracted to religion by fear of the unknown or by intellectual simplicity, but the time would come “when science can answer all the questions.”[ii]
This source has many comments to that effect. Religion would “crumble” before the “advances of science”; science cannot err too much because it is non-dogmatic and self-correcting. Hitler is quoted as saying, “science postulates the search for, and not the certain knowledge of, the truth.” Religious dogma was in conflict with research, and would collapse “under the battering-ram of science.”[iii]
In what became a minor internet controversy, Richard Dawkins compared one Boteach
Excerpt from Chapter One: The Present Situation
| January 30, 2009 | Posted by admin under Christianity, Excerpts, Hitler, Holocaust |
In the recent past, it was much more commonly assumed that Christianity had nothing to do with National Socialism. It was believed that Christianity was basically benevolent, while National Socialism was basically evil, that Hitler was as far removed from the Sermon on the Mount as it is humanly possible to get. The great majority of Americans would have assumed that the Jewish experience in America was the norm, the result of the Christian influence on American culture.
The cultural climate has changed in the last fifty years, however, and the growing power of secularism makes people less inclined to view Christianity so tolerantly. The well-known support of German Christians for Hitler; statements about God, Christianity, and the churches by Hitler and by leading Nazis, including strong opposition to atheism; Hitler’s Catholic upbringing and his Concordat with the Vatican; the fact that Hitler never officially withdrew from the Catholic Church; the official support for “positive Christianity” in the Nazi party platform; the supposed fact that Hitler came to power in an overwhelmingly Christian country; centuries of Christian anti-Semitism; verses in the New Testament that seem hostile to Jews; the massacres of the Canaanites in the Old Testament-all of these and even other arguments have been emphasized by those who see more and more evidence of connections between Hitler and Christianity.
Reputable scholars and historians have studied Hitler’s ideology more objectively.
Bibliography
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Bibliography Amis, Martin. Koba the Dread. London: Vintage, 2003. Aschheim, Steven A. In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Avrich, Paul. Russian Rebels 1600-1800. New York / London: W.W. Norton Company, 1972. Bascomb, Neal. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young…
Table of Contents
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Table of Contents Introduction ……………………….……………………………Page 1 Part I: Christianity and National Socialism Chapter 1. The New Testament and the Jews ……………..Page 14 The Hep riots … A great and terrible mystery … The biblical concept of Satan … The devilish nature of anti-Semitism … Original sin … Christian servants of the devil … What is…
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