Readings on Fascism and National Socialism - Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
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eternal idea of life.[32]
The National Socialist idea of totality, therefore, and its manifestation in life of the national community form the principal substance of education in the Third Reich: This idea of totality must be radically distinguished from the liberalistic conception of the mass. According to the liberalistic interpretation the whole consists of a summation of its parts. According to the National Socialist organic conception the whole comes before the parts; it does not arise from the parts but it is already contained in the parts themselves; all parts are microcosmic forms of the whole. This organic conception of the whole is the deepest natural justification of the basic political character of all organic life.[33] Education, Beck continues, must present this total unity as it is manifested in the racial character of the people. Race is the most essential factor in the natural and spiritual unity of a people, and it is also the main factor which separates one people from another. The racial character of the people must determine the substance of education; this substance must be derived primarily from the life of the people. Even in the specialized field of political science, Nazi education is concerned not with the structure of the state but with the role of the individual in the life of the people: National Socialist political science concerns itself not |
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