Classify French philosopher Joseph de Maistre

[Sebastianus Rex]

Alpine/dinaric.

[Luigi C]

Alpinid + dinarid

[Tooting Carmen]

Although I voted Remain and would still do so if given the chance again, a part of me does want to paraphrase de Maistre:

"There is no such thing as 'Europeans'. I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians. But as for 'Europeans', I can declare I have never encountered them".

[Creoda]

Although I voted Remain and would still do so if given the chance again, a part of me does want to paraphrase de Maistre:

"There is no such thing as 'Europeans'. I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians. But as for 'Europeans', I can declare I have never encountered them".

Sounds like he was JB007's previous incarnation.

[Tooting Carmen]

Sounds like he was JB007's previous incarnation.

EDIT: de Maistre, along with Herder, is regarded as a controversial and tainted philosopher, because his emphasis on the local and the particular is nowadays seen as the progenitor of fascist thought. (This is despite the fact that both of them hated imperialism and militarism, which were ultimately the main markers of the Nazis in particular).

[Luigi C]

Although I voted Remain and would still do so if given the chance again, a part of me does want to paraphrase de Maistre:

"There is no such thing as 'Europeans'. I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians. But as for 'Europeans', I can declare I have never encountered them".

Is this your personal quote? Because this is the original quote of de Maistre:

I think that it's more a think pointed to everyone he knew, not only on frenchmen, italians and russians...

[Tooting Carmen]

Is this your personal quote? Because this is the original quote of de Maistre:

I think that it's more a think pointed to everyone he knew, not only on frenchmen, italians and russians...

Yes, I was slightly re-phrasing what he said to question the ideology of pan-Europeanism.

[Luigi C]

Yes, I was slightly re-phrasing what he said to question the ideology of pan-Europeanism.

What do you mean with that phrase, it can have various interpretations

[Tooting Carmen]

QUOTE=Tooting Carmen;7134982]Yes, I was slightly re-phrasing what he said to question the ideology of pan-Europeanism.

What you mean with that phrase[/QUOTE]

That each nation, people and language are unique, and we should stop trying to impose an artificial and nebulous 'unity'.

[Tooting Carmen]

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