I'll also degree on your analysis of Nietzche and Nazism, because unlike the authoritarian Christians who subsumed their will into a Holy Book, the Nazi elite were acting entirely of their own violition. It took me some time to think of my response to this. I still think you're wrong here, because the only one who was free to do as he wished, on his own authority, was Hitler himself. The others drew their authority more or less from him, and subsumed themselves into the Nazi Party. They did what they wished, but under the aegis of the Party, not under their own sovereign authority.
There were Übermenschen in Nazi Germany, but they were either Hitler, or the next I can think of were the bomb plotters, who tried to blow him up, but even then they don't quite qualify because they were doing it for conventially moral reasons, not merely because Hitler was in their way.
Obviously, though, I'm going to have to read Nietzsche again, and more closely.
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Date: 2005-06-03 05:37 pm (UTC)It took me some time to think of my response to this. I still think you're wrong here, because the only one who was free to do as he wished, on his own authority, was Hitler himself. The others drew their authority more or less from him, and subsumed themselves into the Nazi Party. They did what they wished, but under the aegis of the Party, not under their own sovereign authority.
There were Übermenschen in Nazi Germany, but they were either Hitler, or the next I can think of were the bomb plotters, who tried to blow him up, but even then they don't quite qualify because they were doing it for conventially moral reasons, not merely because Hitler was in their way.
Obviously, though, I'm going to have to read Nietzsche again, and more closely.