Furthering this concept of the Aryan master race is Nietzsche's explanation of the power of the noble races. Nietzsche believed that at the core of every noble race lies an animalistic core, and it is this core that brings nobility to the noble races. He states “It is impossible not to recognise at the core of all these aristocratic races the beast of prey; the magnificent blonde brute, avidly rampant for spoil and victory; this hidden core needed an outlet from time to time, the beast must get loose again, must return into the wilderness” (1.11). Nietzsche uses the example of a lion, the king of the jungle, to illustrate the animalistic core of the aristocratic races. Hitler, however, whether through misinterpretation or deliberate manipulation,
... slave morality that has choked the world ever since its inception. Nietzsche has been able to lift himself above the constraints of ressentiment in order to comprehend more fully what a truly great man is, and from what he has seen, he has been disgusted with the individual, wholly disappointed in human beings. He recognizes the nearly endless potential of the human mind, but must sadly turn away from the horror before his eyes that allows the poor, the meek, and the less able to command the respect of society. According to the general public, the birds of prey have become enemies to the world because of their perfect sight, their sharp claws, and their unequivocal ability. Nietzsche sees the lambs as the enemies to the world, the lambs who gaze up at the birds of prey with ressentiment and argue that it is better to be mediocre, it is far more just to be ordinary.
He states and restates that the Aryan race is the supreme race of the world and that the Jews are at the bottom. So for the Aryan race to succeed and grow, Hitler strongly believes that a pure Aryan blood is the answer. He says that many Aryan conquerors have failed to maintain power because they start to mix with those who are conquered. In his book he heavily belittles the Jews by denouncing them imitators, egoistic, and destructive. According to him they are imitators because “his [Jewish] intelligence is not the result of his own development, but of visual instruction through foreigners” (Hitler, Pg. 134). He also believes that they have “no culture of their own”, and that the “sham” of the culture they have is the “property of other people”. He also expresses his view about that Jew’s egoistic and lack of self sacrificing nature. He describes the Jews as only looking out for themselves and claiming that they are only “united when a common danger forces him [Jews] to be” (Hitler, 135). He professes that if Jews were left alone in the world then their destructive nature would lead them to exterminate one another. Other reason for his allegation that Jews are destructive include that they destroy the property they own and that they destroy other cultures. He comes to the conclusion that those who are not pure Aryan blood are “chaff”,
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, a German philosopher, believed there are two different moralities; master and slave morality. For Nietzsche, a morality is a set of value judgements. These moralities define a person not only by their actions, but how they handle these certain situations throughout their daily life. I believe Nietzsche chose these two moralities as they are strong opposites that are rational. The distinction between "master morality" and "slave morality" are easy to be misunderstand.
Hitler uses fallacies in his arguments such as; non sequitur, ad populum and faulty appeals to emotion. All of these are simply apparatus that a terribly arrogant and insane man wields to acquire the absolute power that he did in fact attain. Throughout his essay though, we can see that Hitler’s thinking is predominated by a fallacious belief that begs the question: what proof do you have that Aryans are superior to other peoples?
]Haffner, is a book which is hard to define. Only 165 pages long, Haffner has crammed more relevant information into this book than many twice its length. He observes Hitler's roller coaster ride through life and the country that he eventually took along. From Hitler's private life to the complete betrayal of Germany, Haffner evaluates the conditions and impetus for Hitler's accomplishments and failures. These include not only Hitler's psyche, but also the political arena of post World War I Europe.
n January of 1933 the Nazi regime took control of Germany with the belief that Germans were “racially superior.” Throughout this time period called the Holocaust, which is a Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire,” the Jewish people were deemed inferior, and were the main threat to the German racial community. Though the Holocaust was a systematic and bureaucratic war, racism is what fueled the persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. Racism is defined as “a belief or doctrine that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” This framework of racism was what Hitler believed would “carve out a vast European empire.” (Perry,
It was Hitler’s ability to make group identity salient within the Aryan German population, the transformation of his ideas to ideology, and his deep hatred for the Jews that ultimately led to the Holocaust. Although Anti-Semitism was already present within German society before Hitler rose to power, he was the actor that enacted policies against Jews and what ultimately led to the Final Solution
This society, in which Germans would be the conquerors of the world and the leader of every aspect of society, would be a society in which only German Aryans thrived, Hitler told the masses (Noakes). It was essential in order to have a society that was not tainted, to efface those who could poison this wonderful utopia, and thus crush the German dream. The Jews and other inferior races, Hitler told the population, were the ca...
After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews. However, approximately 11 million people were killed in the holocaust, and of those, there were only 6 million Jews killed. The other 5 million people were the Gypsies, Pols, Political Dissidents, Handicapped, Jehovah’s witnesses, Homosexuals and even those of African-German descent. Those who were believed to be enemies of the state were sent to camps where they were worked or starved to death.
Events in his life made him adopt a strong discontent and animosity towards the Jews. In his speeches and writings, Hitler spread his beliefs of racial "purity" and of the superiority of the "Germanic race"—what he called an Aryan "master race." He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. As seen clearly from the ‘Nation and Race’ For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall, any description in variance with this was not
Engel’s chapter offered information that is new to me and that I found helpful. Hitler’s view about the Jews surprised me. In the past, I have read about Hitler’s hatred toward the Jews, but never read that he called them parasites. His comparison of Jews to parasites throughout the text kind of bothered me. This is one of the worst words that can be used to describe a specific group or race. I was interested in how Hitler identified Jews as a race and thought they used some secret way to survive without land. I didn’t know back in days lands were available in limited amount. [previous sentence unclear] Just by his assumptions, Hitler named Jews as a danger to all people in the world.
Should human beings be defined simply by their genetics or heritage? This is a question that pains many philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche, who is the author of Ecce Homo. In his book Nietzsche goes through implicate measures to emphasize that human beings cannot merely be defined by their genetics or national origin. According to Nietzsche, it is how we live that characterizes us. In fact, there is a specific issue in his book that thoroughly discuss an issue that affect the way in which we live our lives as well as who we are. Through Nietzsche’s description of this issue we are able to develop an insight into his true character and gain a deeper understanding of his beliefs.
In this essay, I will be presenting Nietzsche 's division between master and slave morality. First, I will present in detail what master mortality and slave mortality is. Second, I will present the steps of transitioning between the two. I will conclude with why Nietzsche sees this to be a problem for humanity.
What does Nietzsche’s Mr. Daredevil-Curiosity report, when he metaphorically peers into the workshop within which moral ideals are fabricated (GM I.14)? How convincing are his claims?
Nietzsche was a man who questioned the morality of his time. He dug deep in to what good really meant, and if there was a difference between bad and evil. He sought to look at the world by stepping back and looking at it with out the predisposition of what morality was/is. He looked at what he called slave and noble morality. He looked passed what was on the surface, and gave us many things to digest and discuss. In this paper I will discuss how Nietzsche’s writing can be seen as favoritism towards the noble morality by touching on how he believes the noble morality and slave morality came about, then I will talk about his “birds of prey and lambs” example which shows his fondness of the bird of prey, and I will end with my interpretation