From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 13:28:33 -0500 Subject: Give Hegel back to the fascists --------------------------------------------------------------------- Was Hegel a racist? Good Heavens, no, he was a good German Christian in the process of becoming God: "A mild and passionless disposition, want of spirit, and a crouching submissiveness (...) towards a European, are the chief characteristics of the native Americans (...) The inferiority of these individuals in all respects, even in regard to size, is very manifest. (...) "The Negro (...) exhibits the natural man in his completely wild and untamed state;(...) there is nothing harmonious with humanity to be found in this type of character." (Hegel, "Introduction to the Philosophy of History", p.81&93) So, how does Thacker propose to stand him on his head so that he marches on politically correct pilosity? Oh yes, by switching subject and predicate...and glossing over his German, all too German ethnocentered prejudice. Why does one not find overt Anti-Semitic remarks in Hegel's writings? Because he *only* admires the Jews for their priestly spirit - since he too was but a priest of laic Christianity and eagerly hoped for his dialectical self-consciousness as the Sittlich realization of the ideal of the Jewish-Christian priest. However, and despite Hegel's wrath against Fries' involvement in the anti-Semitic Burschenschaften, and despite his subdued apology of 'civil rights for the Jews', hear what he says about the 'technical aspect' of the State's anti-Semitism: "Thus technically it may have been right to refuse a grant of even civil rights to the Jews on the ground that they should be regarded as belonging not only to a religious sect but to a foreign race." ("Philosophy of Right") Hegel, at bottom, wished what any other Christian wanted - they would not mind *their* Jews no more if only *their* Jews were to become good Christians (or good Nazis, for that matter). Q: Would anyone who actually *knew* a Sioux, a Mohawk, an Iroquois, a Tarahumara, an Apache, or a Zulu, a Nuba, a Dogon, etc, believe that there was anything of submissiveness to them, proud, noble warrior societies that they were? It takes a dinosaur (say, a Marxist, say a crypto-Lenino-Stalinist) to still believe in Hegel today. Histoires à dormir debout. But then, just about all the races have now been bleached. Lambda C --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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