Ebook {Epub PDF} Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff

Peikoff brilliantly displays how philosophy destroyed the Weimar Republic, the same philosophy that gave rise to Nazism and the slaughtering of millions of innocent men, women and children. The same philosophy that gave rise to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Mussolini in It/5. The Cause of Hitler’s Germany. Published in , this book consists of the eleven chapters on Nazism from The Ominous Parallels, with a new preface by Leonard Peikoff. Peikoff solves the decades-old puzzle of how “the land of poets and philosophers” could have produced such a horror as Nazi Germany. Through a presentation of the philosophic antecedents of the Nazis, he shows that it was Germany’s .  · The Ominous Parallels - Leonard Peikoff Introduction by Ayn Rand Part One: Theory 1. The Cause of Nazism 2. The Totalitarian Universe 3. Hitler's War Against Reason 4. The Ethics of Evil 5. The Nation of the Enlightenment 6. Kant Versus America Part Two: Practice 7. United They Fell 8. The Emotionalist Republic 9. The Nazi Synthesis The Culture of Hatred Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.

In , LEONARD PEIKOFF went on a book tour to talk about his recently released book, "THE OMINOUS PARALLELS". (This was only months after Ayn Rand's death). Leonard Peikoff answers these questions in The Ominous Parallels, a study of the alarming similarities between America today and Germany just prior to and during the Nazi era. In essence, Dr. Peikoff's answer is that the ultimate cause of Nazism was philosophy. Ominous Parallels. by Leonard Peikoff. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it.

Peikoff brilliantly displays how philosophy destroyed the Weimar Republic, the same philosophy that gave rise to Nazism and the slaughtering of millions of innocent men, women and children. The same philosophy that gave rise to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Mussolini in It. The Cause of Hitler’s Germany. Published in , this book consists of the eleven chapters on Nazism from The Ominous Parallels, with a new preface by Leonard Peikoff. Peikoff solves the decades-old puzzle of how “the land of poets and philosophers” could have produced such a horror as Nazi Germany. Through a presentation of the philosophic antecedents of the Nazis, he shows that it was Germany’s poets and philosophers who led to Hitler. The Ominous Parallels Quotes Showing of “The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self.