by Book Editor | Jul 1, 2021 | Book
Aside from the actual murders, this was the most lethal feature of the camps: that most prisoners could not accept the reality of what they saw, they could not reconcile the horror with life as they had once known it, and yet they could not deny the evidence of their...
by Book Editor | Jun 1, 2021 | Quotes
Kant is the first philosopher of self-sacrifice to advance this ethics as a matter of philosophic principle, explicit, self- conscious, uncompromised—essentially uncontradicted by any remnants of the Greek, pro-self viewpoint…. If men lived the sort of life Kant...
by Book Editor | May 7, 2021 | Book
“[T]he wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit,” declares Hitler in Mein Kampf; a man must “renounce putting forward his personal opinion and interests and sacrifice both. . . .” The political implementation of “subservience to...
by Book Editor | Apr 14, 2021 | Book
You cannot understand, because this world cannot be understood; such was the first part of the message broadcast to the prisoner by all the man-degrading, soul-destroying conditions he encountered, including the living standards incompatible with life, the rules...
by Book Editor | Mar 21, 2021 | Book
Hegel is a post-Kantian Platonist. Taking full advantage of the anti-Aristotelianism sanctioned by Kant, Hegel launches an attack on the root principles of Aristotle’s philosophy: on the principles of Aristotelian logic (which even Kant had not dared to challenge...
