This essay cuts right to the heart of it — nationalism's collectivism is not just a political failure, it's a philosophical one. But there's a deeper question underneath: why does the reductive concept of the human being make this so seductive and so dangerous? Viktor Frankl's warning that the gas chambers were prepared not in a Ministry, but at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. The logic of "Blood and Soil" and the academic formula of "Heredity + Environment" share the same philosophical structure… the erasure of irreducible human freedom.
This essay cuts right to the heart of it — nationalism's collectivism is not just a political failure, it's a philosophical one. But there's a deeper question underneath: why does the reductive concept of the human being make this so seductive and so dangerous? Viktor Frankl's warning that the gas chambers were prepared not in a Ministry, but at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. The logic of "Blood and Soil" and the academic formula of "Heredity + Environment" share the same philosophical structure… the erasure of irreducible human freedom.
https://envphil.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-blood-and-soil-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7vamvb
Nationalism vs. freedom - Aristotle's Golden Mean is valuable here.
As I like to say, nationalism is like nitroglycerine: it can either blow up bridges or heal hearts.