I have a co-authored article (in English) forthcoming in a Polish academic journal. My co-author is Przemysław Zientkowski of Nicholas Copernicus University. Dr. Zientkowski has just published a book (in Polish) on the critique of human rights in Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. So if your Polish is up to speed, check it out.
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Part 8 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 8. Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [mp3] [YouTube] [7 minutes] 40. Hindsight and future resolve [mp3] [YouTube] 41. Principled anti-Nazism [mp3] [YouTube] Previous: Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube] Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [mp3] [YouTube] Part 3.
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Part 7 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi [mp3] [YouTube] [27 minutes] 34. Anti-individualism and collectivism [mp3] [YouTube] 35. Conflict of groups [mp3] [YouTube] 36. Instinct, passion, and anti-reason [mp3] [YouTube] 37. Conquest and war [mp3] [YouTube] 38. Authoritarianism [mp3] [YouTube] 39.
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Professor Capaldi lectured recently at Rockford University on the topic of “The Lockean Liberty Narrative versus the Rousseau Equality Narrative, and How These Narratives Explain Everything.” Afterward we discussed his themes — the conflict between the Lockean and Rousseauian narratives, enterprise and civil societies, the nature of the corporation, corporate philanthropy, cronyism, and more. Professor
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Part 6 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis [mp3] [YouTube] [15 minutes] 27. Five differences [mp3] [YouTube] 28. On the “blond beast” and racism [mp3] [YouTube] 29. On contemporary Germans [mp3] [YouTube] 30. On anti-Semitism [mp3] [YouTube] 31. On the Jews [mp3]
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On September 17, Dr. Nicholas Capaldi will visit the campus to speak on “The Lockean Liberty Narrative vs. the Rousseau Equality Narrative, and How These Narratives Explain Everything.” Professor Capaldi is the Legendre-Soulé Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D.
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Part 5 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence [mp3] [YouTube] [46 minutes] 21. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? [mp3] [YouTube] 22. God is dead [mp3] [YouTube] 23. Nihilism’s symptoms [mp3] [YouTube] 24. Masters and slaves [mp3] [YouTube] 25. The origin of slave morality
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In “Philosophy and a Century of War,” I left the Soviet Union out of my discussion of World War II, for reasons not clear or convincing to everyone. So let me lay out my thought process. I started with a semi-complete list of the belligerents on both sides. It looks like this: From outside perspective,
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