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Heroic Individualism: Anarchistic and Aristocratic

In: Philosophy of Leadership

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  • Robert Spillane

    (Macquarie University)

  • Jean-Etienne Joullié

    (Gulf University for Sciences & Technology)

Abstract

Max Stirner was an eccentric German philosopher who brought Fichte down to earth and turned Schopenhauer on his head. Fichte’s statement that consciousness (ego) is everything harmonises perfectly with Stirner’s thesis, boldly defended in his infamous book of 1844, Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum, translated by Germans into English as The Unique One and His Property, but mistranslated by English speakers as The Ego and its Own. Stirner added, however, that it is not that ego is everything, but that ego destroys everything. By ego he meant the finite, personal ego, not an absolute or transcendental ego. Stirner vehemently rejected the idea that we have lying outside ourselves a destiny which enables us to lay claim to our basic humanity. This is a Christian fable. He criticised Fichte for inventing a substitute god — the absolute ego — to which all individuals are subordinated.

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  • Robert Spillane & Jean-Etienne Joullié, 2015. "Heroic Individualism: Anarchistic and Aristocratic," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Philosophy of Leadership, chapter 8, pages 157-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-49920-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137499202_8
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