University:
University of Wyoming
Course:
INST2280 | Introduction to European Studies
Academic year:

2023
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77

Pages:

2
Author:

A Brown

FIC Eighth Address: What is a People in the HIgher Meaning of the Word, and What is Love of Fatherland? (1808) ● What is a people? ○ “What is love of fatherland, or, to express it more correctly, what is the love of the individual for his nation?” (115) ● Every person, not just Germans, are able to love their homeland ● Religion is able to transcend all conditions (including life and time) ○ Not having a strong connection to your fatherland because of your religious beliefs (emotionally not being invested in your fatherland because you understand that they do not exist in heaven) is a “gross misuse of religion” (115) ● “The natural impulse of man, which should be abandoned only in case of real necessity, is to find heaven on this earth, and to endow his daily work on earth with permanence and eternity …” (116) ● What man does not want to live forever in his homeland? ○ “Such men must conform to the wishes of the noble-minded until they have become like them” (117) ● “When viewed from the standpoint of a spiritual world: the totality of me continuing to live in society with each other and continually creating themselves naturally and spiritually out of themselves, a totality that arises together out of the divine under a certain special law of divine development” (117) ● A noble man’s ideas on his legacy on earth is created with the hope of his country/people continuing to exist ○ This is what he binds his life legacy to ● “So it is. Love that is truly love, and not a mere transitionary lust, never clings to what is transient; only in the eternal does it awaken and become kindled, and there alone does it rest” (119) ● People live in their respective fatherlands because they know the continued legacy of there family is there, and that their own legacy will live there ● People in the fatherland understand a sense of support and eternity on earth in the fatherland which can be eternal “far transcend the state in the ordinary sense of the word” ● New ruler metaphors ● “Wherever there has been true government, wherever bitter struggles have been endured, wherever victory has been won in the face of mighty opposition, there it has been that promise of eternal life which governed and struggled and won the victory” (122) ● “A true German could only want to live in order to be, and to remain, just a German and to bring up his children as Germans” (123) ● Those who are inspired always should and will come out victorious over those who are not ○ “Eternity inspired them” (124) ● Even still: it is still permitted to talk to each other in the German language about the fatherland, we are ready to retain out courage ** Credit themselves (Germany) as those who brought down the Roman Empire by withstanding all that was forced upon them. Currently being occupied by France (1806), we will stand withstand occupation.