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Father Anarchist-Egoism, Anarcho-Individualist Philosopher, German Post-Hegelian Philosopher, and one of the Forerunners of Nihilism, Existentialism, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Postmodernism
: Professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #10 on Education Struggle Quotes >> School and The State
“...the independent establishment of the state founds my lack of independence; its condition as a "natural growth," its organism, demands that my nature do not grow freely, but be cut to fit it. That it may be able to unfold in natural growth, it applies to me the shears of "civilization"; it gives me an education and culture adapted to it, not to me, and teaches me to respect the laws, to refrain from injury to state property (that is, private property), to reverence divine and earthly highness, etc.; in short, it teaches me to be -- unpunishable, "sacrificing" my ownness to "sacredness" (everything possible is sacred; property, others' life, etc.). In this consists the sort of civilization and culture that the state is able to give me: it brings me up to be a "serviceable instrument," a "serviceable member of society."”
Source: "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2.
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