No system is a guarantee. Fascism does indeed exploit the narrow self-interest of groups, as we see today. Tea, anyone? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, April 17, 2011 5:37:30 PM Subject: Re: "As Nietzsche understood it, nihilism, even radical nihilism, is compatible with democratic pluralism; it is in fact the philosophic expression of the leveling of all hierarchies of value, a phenomenom that takes the political form for modern... Though representative democracy can be the vehicle to autocracy - in that there are many forms of representative - and fascism finds these to be useful On 4/17/11 7:47 AM, "William Conger" <[email protected]> wrote: Democratic pluralism is anarchy. Nihilism is anarchy. A direct democracy leads to tyranny. A representative democracy is a safeguard against tyranny because it protects the interests of the minority, or pluralist interests, without enabling each to cancel the others. WC ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, April 16, 2011 7:50:44 PM Subject: "As Nietzsche understood it, nihilism, even radical nihilism, is compatible with democratic pluralism; it is in fact the philosophic expression of the leveling of all hierarchies of value, a phenomenom that takes the political form for modern democra - As Nietzsche understood it, nihilism, even radical nihilism, is compatible with democratic pluralism; it is in fact the philosophic expression of the leveling of all hierarchies of value, a phenomenom that takes the political form for modern democratic culture. "The Novel and the Globalization of Culture" (1995,Moses) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Do you agree with Dr. Moses' comment? --
