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Would Plato Have Approved of the National-socialist State?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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Like all my generation at Oxford, in the far-away years of the turn of the century, I received my first introduction to the Philosophical Theory of the State through the reading of Plato’s Republic. There followed Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Bosanquet— with a disapproving glance at Mill and Spencer. Alongside this survey of widely varying theories there ran a lively interest in the politics of the day under a “democratic,” i.e. parliamentary, system of government, with much experience of “democratic” methods in the running of various college and university societies, the officials of which were elected by the members, and the actions of which were determined, after discussion, by majority vote.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1938

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page 172 note 1 Though there is a Reichsfrauenfuehrerin, and though the Partei has women members and uses them for its work, still the supreme body of leaders is intended to consist of men only, and the N.-S. ideal for women is the Hausfrau, the wife and mother.