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This is the fourth and final part of a four part presentation of Dr. Stephen Hicks' book, Nietzsche and the Nazis. The focus in this part is on the similarities and differences between the ideas of Nietzsche and those of the Nazis.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed that the 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), was one of their inspirations. Were they right to do so?
This video investigates the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche as well as the political ideas of the Nazi Party. To what extent did Nietzsche's philosophy provide a foundation for the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis?
Timestamps:
01:30 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis
02:58 Five differences
06:12 Contemporary Germans
07:41 On anti-Semitism
09:08 On the Jews
11:42 On Judaism and Christianity
14:58 Summary of the differences
16:37 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi
27:03 Conflict of groups
29:32 Instinct, passion and anti-reason
33:28 Conquest and war
38:05 Authoritarianism
41:28 Summary of the similarities
42:40 8. Hindsight and future resolve
46:45 Principled anti-Nazism
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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