Why did World War I happen? Many causal factors, and philosophy was an important one.
Stephen Boydstun nicely summarizes and comments on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression. (Posted at Irfan Khawaja’s site.)
See also my shorter 2015 post John Dewey on Kant and the Causes of World War I.
Freedom is the question… we have a civilization with more than 5000 years of slavery (let’s ask the Jews)… will collectivism be the answer to put aside the harsh reality that only a few have the capacity to make isionaries decisions .. Will consumerism be the new slavery in postmodern society and the explanation for the incongruity of why authoritarian models persist? If it is not, let’s see the greatest example of all PRC…
i do admire mssr hicks for his attempt to treat the nazi phenomenon in a truly post war manner as we all still live in the shadow of that war, in the shadow of hitler and stalin, a shadow cast, not by them, but by the neoliberals who now control the commanding heights.
but he’s missed the most obvious interpretation, that nazism was UNIQUE, SUI GENERIS.
he never mentions that today the nazis would be described as “animal rights extremists” and “ecofascists”.
the phenomenon that was nazism is far deeper than any dare plunge in this moment of the weltgeist.
but there are careers to make.
at the end of the youtube vid you come very close, very close, but you miss a little, because you…how do i say it?
the nazis, the bolshies, the washington consensus neoliberals…
putting oneself in their shoes one sees…
it’s not that their ideologies were/are false.
they are all moments in the weltgeist which had their good points, their true points and…
they are the moments of the next aufhebung.
it is not enough to kill one’s enemy or out debate him.
one must eat him, make him part of himself.
hegelianism in this world might be called Apocatastasis-m in the next.
the word apocatastasis is typically used to refer to the belief that everyone – including the damned in hell and the devil – will ultimately be saved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocatastasis
the nazis lost.
the bolshies lost.
the neoliberals will lose.
but they’re our kin again…eventually.
in the end…the jew whose life ended breathing the fumes from a soviet tank engine will give hitler a hug and say…
“i forgive you.”
and hitler will say…
“i forgive you too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy3rV44CRoM&ab_channel=Maxpolonskimusic