Moral laws, according to Kant, are a set of orders issued to man by a nonheavenly, nonearthly entity (which I… Read More »A categorical imperative pronounces an action “as good in itself” no matter what the result
Professor L. G. Tirala, a philosophically trained Nazi ideologist, sees beyond the obvious romanticist sources of this attitude. He traces… Read More »Nazi activism and the two-world philosophy of Kant
The experimental findings of the Nazi “laboratories” can be reduced to a single statement: total domination over man requires philosophical… Read More »The experimental findings of the Nazi “laboratories” can be reduced to a single statement…
The base of human knowledge is the evidence provided by the senses, which are man’s primary means of contact with… Read More »Who are you to perceive?
The Nazis preached a certain philosophy—and they carried it out in action. They preached authority above rights, the group above… Read More »The Nazis preached a certain philosophy–and they carried it out in action.
Aside from the actual murders, this was the most lethal feature of the camps: that most prisoners could not accept… Read More »A world of A and non-A.
Kant is the first philosopher of self-sacrifice to advance this ethics as a matter of philosophic principle, explicit, self- conscious,… Read More »Kant is the first philosopher for self-sacrifice on principle
“[T]he wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit,” declares Hitler in Mein Kampf; a… Read More »“Du bist nichts; dein Volk ist alles”
You cannot understand, because this world cannot be understood; such was the first part of the message broadcast to the… Read More »The final product of the camps, one which the Nazis carefully shaped, was death.