Alexis de Tocqueville

Zeev Sternhell on the Nazis’ pillaging of Nietzsche

Refreshing this quotation from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010), a scholarly study of the most disturbing intellectual trend of the modern world — the ongoing lineage of intellectuals opposed to the Enlightenment tradition of reason, naturalism, individualism, and freedom. Along the way Sternhell asks, of Nietzsche’s place in the trend, an […]

Zeev Sternhell on the Nazis’ pillaging of Nietzsche Read More »

Texts in Philosophy — very late 2015 additions

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. All files are PDFs. Thomas Aquinas, “Whether it is lawful to kill sinners?” and “Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?” From Summa Theologica (1265-1274). Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946). Martin Luther, excerpts from The

Texts in Philosophy — very late 2015 additions Read More »