Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, teaches the practical meaning of Auschwitz.
The ceasura that 'totalitarianism unbridled' represents is the erasure of the moral framework that led up to that unspeakable abomination. The Third Reich was a revolutionary event in the negative dimension. It eradicated the authority of Western civilization's moral philosophy. We are only now beginning to understand its implications but the ultimate victims of Hitler and Stalin were Aristotle and Spinoza and Kant, et.al.
Antiquity 2.0 must disqualify both the Enlightenment as well as rabbinic Judaism and it must endeavor to reclaim the deep wisdom of the ancient world's greatest work – the Hebrew's Bible.
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