Max Stirner Flashcards

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What form of anarchism was Stirner crucial in developing?

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Nihilism, which proses the abolition of both state and society

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What concept did Stirner develop?

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The concept of the self-interested ego

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What is Stirner’s key work?

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The Ego and His Own (1845)

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what was Stirner opposed to?

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The state, region and ideology

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What ideologies did Stirner see as a denial of individual conscience?

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Socialism and Marxism, calling these threats to the exercise of egoism ‘spooks’ and ‘ghosts’, meaning shadowy illusions which appeared to promote individual liberty hut in practice were suppressing it

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What did Stirner argue everybody should develop in place of ideology?

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A sense of egoism, as egoism spread it would begin to challenge the authority of the state, religion and ideology in general

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What did Stirner want egoist to form?

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‘Unions of egoism’, collective groups that saw their self-interest in terms of mutual interest, these unions gradually replacing the state

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What was Stirner view on human nature?

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Pessimistic

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9
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What did Stirner champion?

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Unrestrained individual liberty

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What was Stirner view on liberty?

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State and private property be abolished to establish the widest possible freedom and any moral restraints that might inhibit the individual

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Which syndicalist did Stirner share determination to resist morality?

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George Sorel

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