| ▲ | kalterdev 2 hours ago | |
> 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. | ||
| ▲ | Braxton1980 an hour ago | parent [-] | |
>For him, state is a sacred authority that transcends individual will. State authority exists in democracys therefore that's not an argument for dictatorships >they champion extreme forms of altruism and its only logical expression: statism Why is statism the only logical expression of extreme altruism? Jesus Christ was the ultimate altruist and is not a state. I can dedicate my life to only helping others over myself as an individual . You're arguments and example are extremely poor because you showing evidence related to governments and states but your original claim was to one specific type of government, a dictatorship. | ||