Dear Dom,
imagine my happiness when I saw you coming to the point, our point.
See my last post about De Sade offering an interpretation of the French
Revolution executing the King-"God" Louis the XVI
http://www.ibiscom.com/louis.htm
and analyzing the right of it under the light of an atheist attempt
to show that once a political power is established by means of a crime
towards the people' God (good or evil he might be),
how can that power claim to be depositary of justice, while being murderous
and criminal?
That's why De Sade advocated a Republic of absolute freedom from moral
judgments. It was, of course, an extreme preovocation and challenge of those
ongoing false and self-righeous criminal principles.
A State which becomes legitimate by means of systematically perpetrated
crimes (like during Nazism) can either make of murder and crime the general
universal law or succumb (as it alwaya happens) to the same logic.
Onere e lode al Divino Marchese, Principe dell'Intelligenza Illuminista!!!!
Erminia
http://communities.msn.com/ErminiaPassannanti
http://www.lycos.it/dir/Arte_e_Spettacolo/Letteratura/Autori/Novecento/
>From: "domfox" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Re re re self and unself Nazism De Sade - a lengthy post
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:04:35 +0100
>
> > On this point, I see there's a new book out -- 'The Third Reich:
> > A New History' by Michael Burleigh -- in which it is argued that
> > Nazi ideology functioned as a *religion*, with Hitler as its deity.
>
>Bonhoeffer said this, in his _Ethics_:
>
>"When the national socialist says, 'My conscience is Adolf Hitler',
>that...is an attempt to find a foundation for the unity of his own ego
>somewhere beyond himself. The consequence of this is the surrender of one's
>autonomy for the sake of an unconditional heteronomy, and this in turn is
>possible only if the other man, the man to whom I look for the unity of my
>life, fulfils the function of a redeemer for me."
>
>(Fontana library edition, 1964 - p. 243)
>
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