German Philosophy and Politics

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H. Holt, 1915 - Broj stranica: 134
 

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Stranica 18 - Who loves not woman, wine, and song, Remains a fool his whole life long." He was a complete man; I might say, an absolute man, in whom spirit and matter were inseparable.
Stranica 107 - They may be called Heroes, inasmuch as they have derived their purposes and their vocation, not from the calm, regular course of things, sanctioned by the existing order; but...
Stranica 82 - Then will appear Kantians, as little tolerant of piety in the world of deeds as in the world of ideas, who will mercilessly upturn with sword and axe, the soil of our European life in order to extirpate the last remnants of the past.
Stranica 128 - Out of the present situation, which certainly "presents the spectacle of the breakdown of the whole philosophy of nationalism, political, racial, and cultural," may conceivably issue a new birth of internationalism, founded not so much upon arbitration treaties, to be used in time of disturbance, as upon governmental devices designed to protect and enhance the fruitful processes of cooperation in the great experiment of living together in a world become conscious...
Stranica 108 - But so mighty a form must trample down many an innocent flower— crush to pieces many an object in its path.
Stranica 83 - Gnmdlagm, 1930. 262 by fear nor self-interest, for they live in the spirit. . . . Most of all to be feared would be the philosophers of nature, were they actively to mingle. . . . For if the hand of the Kantian strikes with strong unerring blow ; if the Fichtean courageously defies every danger, since for him danger has in reality no existence ; — the Philosopher of Nature will be terrible in that he has allied himself with the primitive powers of nature, in that he can conjure up the demoniac...
Stranica 86 - It has been instructed [he is speaking of the German State] by a long line of philosophers that it is the business of ideal right to gather might to itself in order that it may cease to be merely ideal.
Stranica 15 - ... when once a teacher is installed in office, the political authorities have always taken a hand, at critical junctures, in determining the selection of teachers in subjects that had a direct bearing upon political policies. Moreover, one of the chief functions of the universities is the preparation of State officials. Legislative activity is distinctly subordinate to that of administration conducted by a trained civil service, or, if you please, bureaucracy. Membership in this bureaucracy is dependent...
Stranica 106 - ... the rational in itself and for itself. Its substantial unity is an absolute end in itself. To it belongs supreme right in respect to individuals whose first duty is — just to be members of the State'. . . . The State 'is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
Stranica 48 - The concept of freedom is meant to actualize in the world of sense the purpose proposed by its laws, and consequently nature must be so thought that the conformity to law of its form at least harmonizes with the possibility of the purposes to be effected in it according to laws of freedom.

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