Part 2 focuses on the impact that Hegel, Kant and Plato had on the Nazi state. The main thesis is captured by Hegelâs thoughts that a man is free when he acts as he himself wills to act, [but since] the state is the true self of the individual . . . What a man really willsâeven though he may not know itâis what the state wills. Liberty, therefore is obedience to the orders of the government. Such obedience guarantees freedom to the true self, even if the illusory self is being sent to Auschwitz. Mussolin put it his way: âFascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty.â Hitler stated: âHowever weak the individual may be when compared with the omnipotence and will of providence, yet at the moment he acts as providence would have him act, he becomes immeasurably strong.â Pushed on the children through our education system and reinforced through media and culture, the emphasis is on the primacy of the state and an individualâs worth dependent on their contribution to the greater whole.
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This is a companion to the National Security and Individual Freedom series. http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/99301
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