Did Nietsche Make Nazi-ism Possible?

[Flying_Monkey]

Nazism certainly needed Hitler. Some other form of authoritarianism or totalitarianism might not have done. IMHO, Nazism was not 'unavoidable' not were the other amoral acts of the C20th, but too many human beings were too obsessed with their own solutions to everything to realise that some reconstruction of what had been lost with 'the death of God' was necessary: some recognition of universality, of shared values. Things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were a start, but we haven't really go much beyond that since...

I think Glover is an exceptional writer as he manages to convey very complex ideas with utmost clarity. I wish I was half as good a writer. If you like Glover, I'd also recommend Clive Ponting's Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century (and indeed his World History). He was another person who could deal with big ideas and make them much clearer - and is sadly missed.

 

[rich p]

I just wiki-ed him thinking it must be diffrent one than the whistlblower but the very same. It doesn't mention his demise though

 

[papercorn2000]

*Can't stay in a bad mood for ever*

There were extreme anti-semites at work in Germany far before Hitler (Heck, it was akin to a national sport throught Europe for centuries).
Maybe he was just the right* man with the right* ideas at the right* time.

*For right, read wrong! If you get me!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I just wiki-ed him thinking it must be diffrent one than the whistlblower but the very same. It doesn't mention his demise though

Same guy, actually. He became an academic after leaving the civil service, and was an excellent historian and popular communicator of history too. Not dead though apparently - don't know why I thought he was!

 

[papercorn2000]

The way he smells?

 

[NickM]

*Can't stay in a bad mood for ever*

Takes practice, son








...only kidding, FFS!

 

[papercorn2000]

Hey NickM, I'm about a 1/4 of the way through that Diamond book, v. interesting!

 

[marinyork]

Well, I still blame Plato.

*goes off and sulks*

Are you a physicist ?

 

[NickM]

Hey NickM, I'm about a 1/4 of the way through that Diamond book, v. interesting!

That's pretty good going - you must be a faster reader than me... (maybe something to do with my habit of trying to read 5 books at once )

 

[papercorn2000]

Are you a physicist ?

Actually, I'm a maths teacher. So I can't understand either maths or physics!

And philosophy has too many long words in it.