There is a neurotic, an unambiguous element in this exaggerated stress on the importance of the tension between the self and the collective, and I do not doubt that this hysteria, this reaction to the strain of civilization, is the secret of the strong emotional appeal of the ethics of hero-worship, of the ethics of domination and submission. But Hegel - ! Here I need Homer s language. Instead of a sober combination of individualism and altruism (to use these labels again21) - that is to say, instead of a position like What really matters are human individuals, but I do not take this to mean that it is I who matter very much - a romantic combination of egoism and collectivism is taken for granted. It is perverted Order Ambien - (Zolpidem) the admiration of brilliance, of the way things are said, which takes the place of a critical appreciation of the things that are said (and the things that are done). The countless number of men who are just as worthy, or worthier, will always be forgotten unambiguous . That is to say, the importance of the self, of its emotional life and its self-expression, is romantically exaggerated; and with it, the tension between the personality and the group, the collective. Do no harm (and, therefore, give the young what they most urgently need, in order to become independent of us, and to be able to choose for themselves ) would be a very worthy aim for our educational system, and one whose realization is somewhat remote, even though it sounds modest. This takes the place of the gh unambiguous is true in p other individuals, the other men, but does not admit of reasonable personal relations. And it is certainly possible to combine an attitude of the utmost reserve and even of contempt towards worldly success in the sense of power, glory, and wealth, with the attempt to do one s best in this world, and to further the ends one has decided to adopt with the clear purpose of making them succeed; not for the sake of Ambien/Tablet or of one s justification by history, but for their own sake. (When Socrates told his friends to care for their souls, he cared for them.) Thus there is certainly something like a romantic or aesthetic element in education, such as should not enter politics. But this bars the way even to a unambiguous formulation of the main problem, the problem of how to obtain a sane appreciation of one s own importance in relation to other individuals. Dominate or submit is, by implication, the device of this attitude; either be a Great Man, a Hero wrestling with fate and earning fame ( the greater the fall, the greater the fame, says Heraclitus), or belong to the masses and submit yourself to leadership and sacrifice yourself to the higher cause of your collective. It is perverted by the romantic idea of the splendour of the stage of History on which we are the actors. Although he should not impose his scale of higher values upon his pupils, he certainly should try to stimulate their interest in these values. Accordingly, attempts to impose higher values not only become unsuccessful, but unambiguous must be insisted that they lead to harm - to something much more concrete and public than the ideals aimed at. We shall make sacrifices, it is said, but we shall thereby obtain honour and fame. And providence could only smile when it saw these attempts. What he says is perfectly true; and then - it serves the Germans right - he is as rude as only a German can be. While it is fairly clear (as we have seen in chapters 9 and 24) that the politician should limit himself to fighting against evils, instead of fighting for positive or higher values, such as happiness, etc., the teacher, in principle, is in a different position. unambiguous is the dubious morality of a period in which only a tiny minority counted, and in which nobody cared for the common people. There were, Kierkegaard wrote19, philosophers who tried, before Hegel, to explain history. Instead higher aims are the fashion, aims which are typically romantic Ambien: Overnight indeed nonsensical, such as the full development of the personality. And, indeed, our intellectual as well as our ethical education is corrupt.