Eine Beziehung zwischen Relativismus und Nationalsozialismus. Tatsache oder Fiktion?
A Relationship Between Relativism and Nazism. Fact or fiction?

Summary/Abstract: According to a certain view that is dominant in historical research, the wide-spread racial doctrines of the twenties and thirties of the last century is said to have advanced relativism. It is argued, that relativism then became the foundation of National Socialist ideology. In the last instance, relativism is accused of having contributed to the Nazi doctrine of racial extermination. Relativism has a long philosophical tradition. The aim of this investigation is to find out how many of the philosophers who supported National Socialism actually held relativistic views. I will show that the assumed correlation between Relativism and National Socialism is a momentous fiction, which paved the way for an (intentional) misrepresentation of the relationship between science and National Socialism.

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