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Thanks for the further explanations. It is interesting to reflect on the fact that in the Third Reich Aristotle suffered an almost complete lack of interest by national-socialist thinkers and race researchers. Plato was muchmore favoured and studied, although a key national-socialist concept which is that of "politischer Menscher" (A. Baümler) is taken from Aristotle's zoon politikon. Ludwig Scheeman was one of the few who reviewed Aristotle in afavourable light, saying that Aristotle developed the theories of slavery and racial hierarchy and warned his pupil, Alexander, against race-mixing which seems not to have had little effect; by the way, Alexander the Great was viewed in a very negative light in national-socialist historiography.
Other than these sparse positive reviews, Aristotle was either ignored or criticized.This was due to a large extent to Rosenberg who dismissed him in his book andwrote that Aristotle was only a "popularizer", a logician unable to create anything, unlike Plato. To Ernst Krieck, Aristotle caused the decadency of old Greek education by creating a dry, inorganic rationalism whose roots were only of an abstract and literary nature. In short, Aristotle was regarded as azealous encyclopaedist, whose works, however, could be useful to retrieve some elements of the old Greek worldview. This treatment can be explained in part by the fact that Aristotle lived in a time when Nordic Athens was disappearing.
This was a synthesis on Aristotle based on the book "Le nazisme etl'Antiquité" minus a misunderstanding from the author who thinks that "zoon politikon" simply means that man is "sociable".
Regarding Stoicism, historian national-socialist F. Schachermeyr traced the racialbackground of all notable Stoics up to Panetius; all except one came from non-Greek territories such as Cilicia, Cyprus, Babylonia, etc. As you know, Zeno himself, the founder of Stoicism, was a "Vollblutphöniker", that is "unhellenisch".
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