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<blockquote data-quote="Chrisling" data-source="post: 406533" data-attributes="member: 6816">Actually, my problems with her are entirely philosophical.&nbsp; I understand the critique of Hegelian organic entities.&nbsp; I agree with the critique.&nbsp; But at the same time she was condemning the Soviet Union and national socialism with it's leftist organic entites of control and destruction she was praising rightist organic entites of control and destruction -- unbridled capitalism, which was so nightmarish that it generated the impetus behind Stalinism and Nazism.&nbsp; While condemning one sort of model of monolithic control, she was promoting another -- and another model that had already &lt;I&gt;failed&lt;/i&gt; and failed so dramatically that Russian communism and Nazism seemed &lt;i&gt;reasonably responses&lt;/i&gt;.This does not bode well for her as a philosopher or historian.PLUS, I never said that &quot;unquestioned altruism&quot; is &quot;unalloyed good.&quot;&nbsp; Personally, well, my favorite writer is Nietzsche and what I learned from him, and what I've kept, is &quot;question everything, then question why you questioned.&quot;&nbsp; I don't think that unquestioned &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; is good, at all, much less unalloyed good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chrisling, post: 406533, member: 6816"] Actually, my problems with her are entirely philosophical. I understand the critique of Hegelian organic entities. I agree with the critique. But at the same time she was condemning the Soviet Union and national socialism with it's leftist organic entites of control and destruction she was praising rightist organic entites of control and destruction -- unbridled capitalism, which was so nightmarish that it generated the impetus behind Stalinism and Nazism. While condemning one sort of model of monolithic control, she was promoting another -- and another model that had already failed and failed so dramatically that Russian communism and Nazism seemed reasonably responses. This does not bode well for her as a philosopher or historian. PLUS, I never said that "unquestioned altruism" is "unalloyed good." Personally, well, my favorite writer is Nietzsche and what I learned from him, and what I've kept, is "question everything, then question why you questioned." I don't think that unquestioned anything is good, at all, much less unalloyed good. [/QUOTE]

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