NIETZSCHE AND THE IDEALS OF MODERN GERMANY.
By HERBERT LESLIE STEWART, M.A., D.Ph.,
Professor of Philosophy in Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Formally John Locke Scholar in the University of Oxford; Late Junior Fellow in the Royal University of Ireland.
Author of “Questions of the Day in Philosophy and Psychology.”
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This volume is confined to those aspects of Nietzsche’s work which throw light upon the social policy and ideals of Germany as revealed in the present war. It is an effort to assist those who wish to correlate the moral outlook of Germany with one personal influence by which, beyond doubt, it has been in part directed; and for those who believe that Nietzsche, properly understood, has been a force making for cosmopolitan peace, the author sets forth in detail the grounds upon which he believes the opposite. One key to the enigma of Germany is to be found in a sinister aberration of thought on ethical questions, especially on the issues of international conduct. Nietzsche was one representative of this phase of thought: that he “made the war” would be a grotesque overstatement; but that he enforced with singular effectiveness just those doctrines of immoralism which Prussia has put into execution this book endeavours to show. He is taken, not as the originator of a policy, but as typical of a mood which has had fearful consequences for mankind.