A philosophy of education, in short, is essential to being a proper parent; otherwise, you are merely turning your child over to blind chance.
Has been said that Nazism is not a philosophy but a passion for destruction. Destruction, however, cannot be achieved with the Nazi consistency or on the Nazi scale, except by means of a certain philo...
The nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists.
The final product of the camps, one which the Nazis carefully shaped, was death. What the SS shaped was mass death without a murmur of protest; death accepted placidly by victims and killers alike; de...
One British writer describes these big bankers and industrialists, who prided themselves on their practicality in backing Hitler, as too innocent for politics. William Shirer says that they were polit...
When the leading voices of the emotionalist Republic championed feeling, it was not as a source of knowledge or of human happiness, but of freedom: the freedom from objectivity, method, logic, fact. I...
When the Americans flocked to pragmatism, they believed that they were joining a battle to advance their essential view of reality and of life. They did not know that they were being marched in the op...
The principles of morality are a product not of feeling, but of cognition.
The dominant, mystical ideas of such cultures represent a nonrational approach to the world, not an antirational approach. In essence, the spokesmen of these earlier times did not know what reason is,...
The defenders of capitalism spent their time broadcasting the vibrations of guilt and futility. Implicitly or explicitly, they were telling the country: human intelligence is impotent to control the c...
Nihilism in this context means hatred, the hatred of values and of their root, reason. Hatred is not the same as disapproval, contempt, or anger. Hatred is loathing combined with fear, and with the de...
Hegel would not have been possible but for Kant, who would not have been possible but for Plato. These three, more than any others, are the intellectual builders of Auschwitz.
All of these men and movements contributed the notes, the chords, or the screeches that fused into the Horst Wessel song. And they are merely some of the obvious voices in Germany from a chorus sustai...
Vice, in the Objectivist view, is not a rewarding policy; it is unconsciousness-willful, self-induced unconsciousness, while one continues to move around and function. To a conscious organism no cours...
The sneer is expressed by philosophic movements which boastfully offer no message, by educators who deliberately teach no subject matter, by artists whose work eliminates recognizable content, by psyc...
The Social Democrats continued all the longtime traditions of their party and sought support in essence from only one segment of the electorate: the proletariat, i.e., the urban workers. The party’s g...
The Nazi] death camps, notes a writer in The New York Times, were conceived, built and often administered by Ph.D.’s.
Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the secularism or the scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades the facts that the Germans at the time, especially in Prussia, were o...
Thus for Plato abstractions are supernatural existents. They are nonmaterial entities in another dimension, independent of man’s mind and of any of their material embodiments. The Forms, Plato tells u...
The worker, said August Bebel (a revered prewar party leader), has little interest in a state in which political liberty is merely the goal. . . . What good is mere political liberty to him if he is h...