Quote from: jacknimble on August 25, 2015, 01:40:29 AM

My question is, WHY would anyone do this?

For (ir-)reason of "the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment" (Konstan).

Quote from: username18333 on August 23, 2015, 01:22:12 AM

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Quote from: username18333 on August 18, 2015, 11:54:14 PM

Quote from: Laurence Rees, "Viewpoint: His dark charisma," BBC News Magazine, 2012

Hitler was the archetypal "charismatic leader". He was not a "normal" politician - someone who promises policies like lower taxes and better health care - but a quasi-religious leader who offered almost spiritual goals of redemption and salvation. He was driven forward by a sense of personal destiny he called "providence".

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Quote from: username18333 on June 05, 2015, 09:48:26 PM

Quote from: David Konstan, Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014

[Epicurus] regarded the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.

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