Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

B. Scientific Considerations
I. The Human Aspect
GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
1. Conflict between the State and the Curiosity Creature
One of the most important questions in this trial will be whether the
works I have published are scientific in nature, hence whether I am protected
by the civil right of freedom of science. In this regard I wish to
thoroughly address the question of what science actually is. For this I
will subsequently refer to diverse leading intellectuals and quote them
at length so that it will become clear that these opinions are not homegrown
“on my own little compost pile,” but rather run like a golden
thread through the intellectual history of mankind.
I would like to start with the question of what it actually is that
makes us human. For my first quotation I go all the way back to the
Greek philosopher Socrates, who observed: 58
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Aristotle, the equally world-famous ancient Greek philosopher, was
expressing the same thought when he observed: 59
“All men by nature desire to know.”
“[…] for men, therefore, the life according to reason is best and
pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is men.” 60
The renowned Spanish sociologist José Ortega y Gasset was a little
more thorough: 61
“Life without Truth cannot be lived. […] Without mankind there
is no truth, but also in reverse: without truth there is no mankind.
One can define man as the creature that has absolute need for truth,
and in reverse: truth is the only thing that ineluctably needs man.
Man is truth’s sole absolute necessity. All of man’s other needs, including
food, are necessary only under the condition that there is
such a thing as truth, which is to say that there is meaning in life.
58 Socrates, Apologia, Sec. 38.
59 Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 1, chapter 1, first sentence; Richard Keon (ed.), The Basic Works
of Aristotle, Random House, New York, 1941, p. 689.
60 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book X, chapter 7; ibid., p. 1105.
61 Humans are omnivores, though; GR. José Ortega y Gasset, Aufstand der Massen, DVA,
Stuttgart 1958, p. 48; this essay is not contained in the English edition of this collection, Revolt
of the Masses, Allen & Unwin, London 1961.
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