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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:606.

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The article by Parent and Shevell in the January 1998 ARCHIVES¹ is well researched, well written, and important to read. Nevertheless, it contains a manifest falsehood that must be set right. On page 85, the authors assert: "Under the Nazis, the prevailing ethic was a Hegelian one, in which ‘ends justified means'." Delete the reference to Hegel, and the sentence would be true.

As a trained philosopher who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Hegel, a former secretary and executive councillor of the Hegel Society of America, and a former associate editor of its journal, The Owl of Minerva, I can state with certainty that to attribute any such ethic to G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) is completely erroneous. In fact, I can think of no major philosopher for whom ends would justify means. Even Machiavelli or Hobbes would temper that attitude somewhat. It typifies practitioners of politics such as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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