Measuring the Master Race
Measuring the Master Race

Author: Jon Røyne Kyllingstad

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2014-12-22

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1909254541

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The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the heartland of this ‘master race’. Measuring the Master Race investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how the concept stamped Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity and the eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific discrediting of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the genetic cleansing of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study of Norwegian physical anthropology. Its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.

There is No Master Race
There is No Master Race

Author: Renee S Royals

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781070853154

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Throughout history mankind suffered oppression and persecution at the hands of men who wanted to be Gods and rulers of the world. However all human life was created equally by our creator and granted the gift of life with the right to live without hate, prejudice and earthly rulers. Mankind is endowed by our creator with the rights, ability, and freedom of choice to pursue life, liberty, happiness and freedom without oppression, persecution, or retribution of the rule of one man group, or organization. Since the beginning a cancerous evil festering in the minds of some contested the laws and the will of our creator seeking power and supremacy over all mankind as ruler of the world. Counterculture demigods and self-proclaimed rulers used ethnicity, race, gender and religion as weapons to divide and control mass populations through separation and segregation to weaken their resistance. Supremacist used lies, violence, poverty and terror to assert fear in the people. Those who chose to stand true to the laws of God where enslaved, murdered, or genocide by supremacist tyrants. Hundreds of year's supremacist rule appeared to be enviable until the birth of America.

Hitler Warned Us
Hitler Warned Us

Author: John Laffin

Publisher: Potomac Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Why didn't the Great Powers' intelligence experts and ambassadors, political observers and behavioural psychologists tell their governments during the 1930s that Adolph Hitler was a threat to humanity? Perhaps they did just that and were ignored. Hitler's intentions and ambitions, his strategy and tactics, his character and personality were all there to be read and analyzed. In his speeches and writings, in his actions and in body language, the dictator was transparently obvious.

Defending the Master Race
Defending the Master Race

Author: Jonathan Spiro

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 158465810X

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A historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history

Debating the A Priori
Debating the A Priori

Author: Paul Boghossian

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-10-14

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0192592548

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What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which develop radically contrasting views and present detailed replies to each other's arguments. A central case is the nature of basic logical knowledge and the justification for basic deductive inferences, but the arguments range widely across epistemology, the philosophy of language, and metaphilosophy. The debate takes in the status of the distinctions between analytic and synthetic and between a priori and a posteriori, as well as problems concerning the conditions for linguistic understanding and competence, and the question of what it might be to grasp a concept or to have an intuition. Both authors explore implications for how philosophy itself works, or should work. The result vividly exposes some of the main fault lines in contemporary philosophy, concerning the relation between reason and experience, the status of basic beliefs, the nature of concepts and intuitions, the role of language in our understanding of the world, how to study knowledge, and what it is to do philosophy. Both authors provide conclusions which sum up their positions and place the arguments in context. Their lively and engaging exchanges allow the reader to follow up-close how a philosophical debatte evolves.

The Autobiography of Philosophy
The Autobiography of Philosophy

Author: Michael Davis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0585080925

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This is the most important book about the nature of philosophy and of the human soul published this year. In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself_it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Plato's Lysis as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Although Rousseau's explicitly autobiographical writings are more often read for the tantalizing details of his rather eccentric life than for their philosophical import, this work is an artful use of Rousseau's exile and isolation_'the strangest position in which a mortal could ever find himself'_as a paradigm for the human soul in its relation to the world. In powerfully articulating the activity that is at the core of all philosophy, The Reveries articulates the nature of the human soul for which this activity is the defining possibility.