| ▲ | Braxton1980 2 hours ago | |||||||
>most philosophies explicitly champion dictatorships I don't understand how you could make this claim. "society is a big organ transcending individual needs”?" How does this statement by Hegel champion dictatorships? | ||||||||
| ▲ | kalterdev 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> I don't understand how you could make this claim. After studying Plato, Hegel, Marx, Rousseau, fascist ideologies, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. This list is by no means exhaustive, just a few majors from the top of my head. Sure, they didn’t just say “shoot people for power.” That’s a very shallow modern view. Instead, they champion extreme forms of altruism and its only logical expression: statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state, to society, to the group, the race, the nation, the economic class. > How does this statement by Hegel champion dictatorships? The statement alone surely doesn’t. His philosophy does. For him, state is a sacred authority that transcends individual will. | ||||||||
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