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My conjecture isn't Hegel is single-handedly responsible for the fall of civilisation. After all I don't have a reason to think he intended that, nor do I think

My conjecture isn't Hegel is single-handedly responsible for the fall of civilisation. After all I don't have a reason to think he intended that, nor do I think civilisation will necasarily fall. Most villains of the thought, ideologues and philosophers are basing their operas on Hegel's. All I am saying Hegel established a framework which eased the works of some scum.

nonrandomstring 2y ago
You might enjoy Rick Roderick's "Masters of Suspicion" where he talks about the influence (and perceived influence) of Nietzsche, Freud, Marx and some other individuals credited with "changing the world". "You notice I haven’t given an analysis of the Enlightenment but of modernity, of modernisation, of the advance of capital, because four pedants don’t make an age. And two or three weird philosophers don’t give birth to a century of unreason. You know, Nietzsche didn’t, you know, from his drawing room give birth to a century of cannonade, slaughter, concentration camps, CIA subterfuge, the raping and the murdering of nuns, the bombing of continents, the despoiling of beaches and the ruin of a planet! Four or five pedants do not have that much power, and never have. That’s just a sort of bugbear. They didn’t 'unleash unreason on the world' Jesus... how crazy can some people get. I mean, even in the postmodern world you shouldn't be that crazy, to say that three or four pedants invented this stuff. " -- R. Roderick Nietzsche’s Progeny (1991)
- cess11 2y ago
  Most likely they won't, since Roderick openly and efficiently argues against "paleoconservatives" and the like.
- alabastervlog 2y ago
  This is likely a use of "pedant" in the more precise pre-vulgarization sense, probably, with a stronger suggestion of "school teacherly" or "insularly academic" than "nit-picking know-it-all". Might help readers follow it.

nonrandomstring 2y ago

You might enjoy Rick Roderick's "Masters of Suspicion" where he talks about the influence (and perceived influence) of Nietzsche, Freud, Marx and some other individuals credited with "changing the world". "You notice I haven’t given an analysis of the Enlightenment but of modernity, of modernisation, of the advance of capital, because four pedants don’t make an age. And two or three weird philosophers don’t give birth to a century of unreason. You know, Nietzsche didn’t, you know, from his drawing room give birth to a century of cannonade, slaughter, concentration camps, CIA subterfuge, the raping and the murdering of nuns, the bombing of continents, the despoiling of beaches and the ruin of a planet! Four or five pedants do not have that much power, and never have. That’s just a sort of bugbear. They didn’t 'unleash unreason on the world' Jesus... how crazy can some people get. I mean, even in the postmodern world you shouldn't be that crazy, to say that three or four pedants invented this stuff. " -- R. Roderick Nietzsche’s Progeny (1991)

cess11 2y ago
Most likely they won't, since Roderick openly and efficiently argues against "paleoconservatives" and the like.
alabastervlog 2y ago
This is likely a use of "pedant" in the more precise pre-vulgarization sense, probably, with a stronger suggestion of "school teacherly" or "insularly academic" than "nit-picking know-it-all". Might help readers follow it.