Part 8 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View.
Part 8. Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [mp3] [YouTube] [7 minutes]
40. Hindsight and future resolve [mp3] [YouTube]
41. Principled anti-Nazism [mp3] [YouTube]
Previous:
Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 4. The Nazis in Power [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis [mp3] [YouTube]
Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi [mp3] [YouTube]
Related:
The Nietzsche and the Nazis page.
In light of the militaristic, war-glorifying German tradition that Nietzsche unfortunately helped stoke I just came across a quote by Isaac Asimov:
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”