It is perverted by 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). It is perverted by the romantic idea of the splendour of the stage of History on which we alike the actors. 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. Thus we are told to make sacrifices, and, at the same time, assured that we shall make an excellent bargain by doing so. 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, alike I do not Online Pharmacy (Ambien Sale) this to mean that it is I who matter very much - a romantic combination of egoism and collectivism is taken for granted. We shall make sacrifices, it is said, but we shall thereby obtain honour and fame. We are educated to act with an eye to the gallery. It cannot possibly be the morality of those who favour justice and equalitarianism; for historical fame cannot be just, and it can be attained only by a very few. A forceful support of some of these views, and especially of the incompatibility of historicism and Christianity, can be found in Kierkegaard s criticism of Hegel. And, indeed, our intellectual as well as our ethical education is corrupt. This takes the place of the gh this is true in p other individuals, the other men, but does not admit of reasonable alike relations. Although he should not impose his scale of higher values upon his pupils, he certainly should try to stimulate their interest in these values. 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 success or of one s justification by history, but for their own sake. At the bottom of all this there Buy Ambien/24 Hour Delivery a real difficulty. 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. But Hegel - ! Here I need Homer s language. What he says is perfectly true; and then - it serves the Germans right - he is as rude as only a German can be. But providence did not laugh outright, for there was a human, honest sincerity about them. We shall become leading actors, heroes on the Stage of History; for a small risk we shall gain great rewards. It is the morality of those who, being political or intellectual aristocrats, have a chance of getting into the textbooks of history. It is under the influence of such romantic ideas that individualism is still identified with egoism, as it was by Plato, and altruism with collectivism (i.e with the substitution of group egoism for the individualist egoism).