Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle

Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle

I.In a 1784 essay, Immanuel Kant makes a case for the merits of what he called humanity’s “asocial qualities.” He writes: “Nature should … be thanked for fostering social incompatibility, enviously competitive vanity, and insatiable desires for possession or even power. Without these desires, all man’s excellent natural capacities would never be roused to develop.” Other philosophers have made similar observations. Friedrich Nietzsche, in his at…