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| c6fa55d | 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 one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and that Germany's largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans, counted themselves among Hitler's sta.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 625f21e | We dare not brush aside unexplained a horror such as Nazism. If we are to avoid a fate like that of Germany, we must find out what made such a fate possible. We must find out what, at root, is required to turn a country, Germany or any other, into a Nazi dictatorship; and then we must uproot that root. We | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 2f8b000 | No weird cultural aberration produced Nazism. No intellectual lunatic fringe miraculously overwhelmed a civilized country. It is modern philosophy--not some peripheral aspect of it, but the most central of its mainstreams--which turned the Germans into a nation of killers. The land of poets and philosophers was brought down by its poets and philosophers. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 2024859 | The Nazis could not have won the support of the German masses but for the systematic preaching of a complex array of theories, doctrines, opinions, notions, beliefs. And not one of their central beliefs was original. They found those beliefs, widespread and waiting, in the culture; they seized upon them and broadcast them at top volume, thrusting them with a new intensity back into the streets of Germany. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| b0a439d | If a man is skeptical about the role of philosophy in life, let him put aside philosophy books. Let him leave the cloistered ivory tower of theory and plunge into the sprawling realms of practice. Let him observe the concretes of his society's cultural life--its politics, its economics, its education, its youth movements, its art and religion and science. In every area, let him discover the main developments and then ask: why? In every area.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 2782d40 | Kant also found it necessary to deny happiness, in order to make room for duty. The essence of moral virtue, he says, is selflessness--selfless, lifelong obedience to duty, without any expectation of reward, and regardless of how much it might make one suffer. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 9801e91 | 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. It was feeling not as an alleged means to truth, but as the nullification of thought." -- | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 098924f | 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 desire to lash out at the hated object, to wound, to disfigure, to destroy it." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| a0f269a | In later years, the creators of "Weimar culture," the ones who survived, cursed the German people for not having listened to them. The tragedy is that the people had listened." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| de74778 | The nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 506c656 | Observe in this connection that the Nazis, correctly, regarded the power of propaganda as an indispensable tool. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| e0b42d5 | 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 hungry?" | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 947fcc1 | The pre-Greek civilizations, never discovering the field of epistemology, had no explicit idea of a cognitive process which is systematic, secular, observation-based, logic-ruled; the medievals for centuries had no access to most of this knowledge. The dominant, mystical ideas of such cultures represent a nonrational approach to the world, not an antirational approach. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 4f5e95d | 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 "politically childish." In fact, their "innocence" was anti-intellectuality, and their "political childishness" was (in effect) philosophical pragmatism." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 2cdb425 | In an advanced, civilized country, a handful of men were able to gain for their criminal schemes the enthusiastic backing of millions of decent, educated, law-abiding citizens. What is the factor that made this possible? | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 1e5af0f | When the country surrendered its educational institutions--in countless forms, direct and indirect, public and private, from nursery school on up--to the legion of Progressive educators spawned by Dewey, it formally delivered its youth into the hands of the philosophy of pragmatism, to be "reconstructed" according to the pragmatist image of man." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 0d9e376 | The Nazi] death camps," notes a writer in The New York Times, "were conceived, built and often administered by Ph.D.'s."10 What had those Ph.D.'s been taught to think in their schools and universities--and where did such ideas come from?" | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 5fb8069 | 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, or, therefore, what it makes possible in human life. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 8a9c7da | 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 psychologists who hold that ideas are mere rationalizations, by novelists such as Thomas Mann, and by all the alleged valuers in all these groups, which purport to love Mankind as a whole, a love whose reality may be gauged by a single fact: the sa.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 47116da | On this view, the individual has reality only as part of the group, and value only insofar as he serves it; on his own he has no political rights; he is to be sacrificed for the group whenever it--or its representative, the state--deems this desirable. Fascism, said one of its leading spokesmen, Alfredo Rocco, stresses the necessity, for which the older doctrines make little allowance, of sacrifice, even up to the total immolation of indivi.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| bdf8572 | Accustom yourself to tireless activity... | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| f3991a9 | German socialism had to overcome this "private," that is, unrestrained and irresponsible view of property. All property is common property. The owner is bound by the people and the Reich to the responsible management of his goods. His legal position is only justified when he satisfies this responsibility to the community.7 Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that .. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 1826eea | 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; death carried out not as any kind of exception, not as an act of purposeful vengeance or hatred, but as casual, smiling, even homey routine, often against a background of colorful flower beds and to the accompaniment of lilting operetta music. It.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| f70c2f0 | Clarity is achieved when concretes are united by a concept and a concept is seen to be a union of those concretes. The two gravest breaches of clarity are: a set of unrelated instances that causes too much pressure on consciousness and a floating abstraction untied to reality. These | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 375b1f6 | 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. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| c9a8ba2 | Both sides in Germany's cultural battle elevated feeling above reason. And both sides experienced the same basic kind of feeling. The left called it alienation or the angst of nothingness. The right called it gotterdammerung or the philosophy of Schopenhauer. The common denominator is the conviction of doom. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 5eb6c6f | During the twenties, Germany's youngsters (both rightist and leftist) were in the vanguard of the growing rebellion against the Weimar Republic. The youngsters were rebelling against the establishment in the name of every fundamental idea which they had been taught by every influential spokesman of that establishment | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 5a79aa8 | 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 course of society, men are helpless in the face of their own motivation, laissez-faire appeals to the evil in men, but men are stuck with it. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 484eadf | To liberate humanity from intelligence, Hitler counted on the doctrines of irrationalism. To rid men of conscience, he counted on the morality of altruism. To free the world of freedom, he counted on the idea of collectivism | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 950e165 | 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 opposite direction, that the battle had been calculated for a diametrically opposite purpose, or that the enemy they were being pushed to destroy was: themselves. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 4db52c4 | From the Bridge" by Captain Hank Bracker Behind "The Exciting Story of Cuba" It was on a rainy evening in January of 2013, after Captain Hank and his wife Ursula returned by ship from a cruise in the Mediterranean, that Captain Hank was pondering on how to market his book, Seawater One. Some years prior he had published the book "Suppressed I Rise." But lacking a good marketing plan the book floundered. Locally it was well received and the .. | Captain Hank Bracker | ||
| 093b1d3 | Not only does eating too much sugar lead to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay, it is also one of the biggest contributors to low energy and feelings of being overwhelmed--it has even been scientifically linked to depression. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 24eb63c | The Workout Do one set of 8 to 12 repetitions, and then immediately do one set of 8 to 12 reps of the next exercise, continue until all moves have been completed. If you can do an exercise more than 12 times, the weight is too light. If you can't reach 12 repetitions, the weight is too heavy. Dumbbell Press Lie on a mat on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. You may place one or more pillows under your back and h.. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 7830a28 | To meet the demands and marketability of lowering fat in foods while maintaining flavorful options, food manufacturers got busy adding increasing levels of sugars in everything from spaghetti sauce to salad dressings. Labels and packages touted health claims because of low-fat ingredients, while completely forgetting to mention that the fat, that actually wasn't bad, had been replaced by an overload of Sugar Calories that cause weight gain. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 606b4a3 | minutes at 500 degrees, then topped with 8 cubes mozzarella cheese (12 SUGAR CALORIES, not 311 calories) Treat Up to 2 glasses red wine (29 SUGAR CALORIES, not 437 Calories) TOTAL 41 SUGAR CALORIES, not 1178 Calories Meal Planner: TUESDAY | Jorge Cruise | ||
| e5ba595 | Not getting enough sleep can also cause depression and bad moods, which can lead to overeating. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 7c72128 | Belly fat raises your risk for high blood cholesterol by 50 percent. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 9fe30e9 | Women with a waist circumference of 36 inches or more are five times more likely to develop diabetes. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 5201087 | Stronger abdominal muscles will help you stand taller, creating a leaner appearance. | Jorge Cruise | ||
| b116c1b | Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| 693ee25 | What normal Americans are willing to implement the strategies they use on that show, let alone capable of doing so?! I | Jorge Cruise | ||
| a36a708 | He is in possession of his life who is in possession of his story." --Carl Jung" | Jorge Cruise | ||
| 007896c | Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. --EDMUND BURKE | Jorge Cruise | ||
| f12c03c | There is always room for improvement, you know--it's the biggest room in the house." --Louise Heath Leber" | Jorge Cruise |