Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The ensuing readings are presented to encourage the student to clarify his thinking on social philosophy. He will accordingly need to determine whether the readings contain a more or less coherent body of ideas which constitutes a social philosophy. He will also need to raise...
Fascism denies the possibilities of the materialistic concept of "happiness"--it leaves that to the economists of the first half of the Seventeenth Century; that is, it denies t...
1. Part 1The ensuing readings are presented to encourage the student to clarify his thinking on social philosophy. He will accordingly need to determine whether the readings contain a mo...
6. Part 6Positivism began forthwith to be attacked by neo-idealism. Materialistic approaches to the study of literature and art were refuted and discredited. Within the Church itself mod...
5. Part 5Different from Machiavelli's, in mental attitude, in cultural preparation, and in manner of presentation, G.B. Vico must yet be connected with the great Florentine from whom in...
4. Part 4There is a Liberal theory of freedom, and there is a Fascist concept of liberty. For we, too, maintain the necessity of safeguarding the conditions that make for the free develo...
8. Part 8This whole concept of the state [parliamentary democracy] is replaced by National Socialism with a basically different concept. National Socialism recognizes that, although the...
7. Part 7This consciousness of self, springing from the consciousness of a historical idea, awakens in a people its will to historical formation: the will to action. The political people...
11. Part 11_No fresh European war is capable of putting something better in the place of unsatisfactory conditions which exist to-day ..._ The outbreak of such madness without end would le...
3. Part 3But Fascism is thought as well and it has a theory, which is an essential part of this historical phenomenon, and which is responsible in a great measure for the successes that...
9. Part 9The ranks of the public services are regarded as forces organized on the living principle of leadership and following: The authority of command exercised in the labor service, t...
10. Part 10Not until the nationalistic political philosophy had become dominant could the liberalistic idea of basic rights be really overcome. The concept of personal liberties of the ind...
12. Part 12National-Socialism is the true instrument for the achievement of the health of our people. National-Socialism is concerned with the great significance of inherited traits and wi...