2005-05-13, 18:29
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I en annan tråd diskuteras det OT om Albert var sionist eller inte.
Jag hävdar att han inte alls var det, även om han 1952 erbjöds att bli Staten Israels förste president.
Vilket han då tackade nej till.
http://www.albert-einstein.org/.index2.html
Visserligen stödde han sionismen - men mer som en motvikt mot anti-semitism, än som ett i sig gott syfte.
1935 så talade han vid en påskhögtid i New York om vikten av att judar och palestiner kunde samsas.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/public3.htm
Så, som jag uppfattat honom - så var han närmast att betrakta som humanist och pacifist, icke-religiös och
anhängare till tanken på en världs-regering. Knappast något som sionismen omfattar i alla delar.
Har någon nån annan åsikt eller källa så är jag givetvis intresserad av detta.
Mer info om Albert Einstein:
Albert Einstein Archives (The Jewish National & University Library)
http://www.albert-einstein.org/
Einsteins Papers Project (Caltech)
http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
Einstein Archives Online
http://www.alberteinstein.info/
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton)
http://pup.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/cpe.html
Einstein Revealed (PBS / Nova)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
Einstein - Image and Impact (American Institute of Physics)
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
Albert Einstein Library
http://www.geocities.com/einstein_library/index.htm
Albert Einstein Online (Länksamling, många fungerar inte)
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
Citatsamling
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%.../Einstein.html
Bildsamling
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.d...ceinstein.html
Jag hävdar att han inte alls var det, även om han 1952 erbjöds att bli Staten Israels förste president.
Vilket han då tackade nej till.
Citat:
Ursprungligen postat av Albert Einstein Archives
Science was Albert Einstein's first love, yet he always found time to devote tireless efforts to political causes close to his heart. His ardent humanism led him to strive for peace, freedom and social justice. The young Einstein found the authoritarianism and militarism of the German educational system profoundly disturbing. The virulent nationalism and brutality of the First World War served to confirm Einstein's pacifist and internationalist convictions.
In the 1920s, Einstein became an active leader of the international anti-war movement and supported conscientious objection. However, the Nazi rise to power brought about a substantial change in Einstein's position: he began to advocate military preparedness by the European democracies against the threat of Nazism. In this context, Einstein wrote his famous letter to U.S. President Roosevelt in which he urged him to initiate an American nuclear research programme. With the onset of the atomic era, Einstein realized that nuclear weapons were a profound risk to humanity and could bring an end to civilization. During the last decade of his life, he was tireless in his efforts to create effective international cooperation to prevent war.
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein felt a close affinity with the Jewish people. Einstein defined Judaism as a culture with a shared historical past and common ethical values rather than as an institutionalized religion. For him the main values of Judaism were intellectual aspiration and the pursuit of social justice. Like Spinoza, he did not believe in a personal god, but that the divine reveals itself in the physical world. Einstein supported the creation of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. However, he stipulated that any solution of the Arab-Jewish conflict had to be based on mutual understanding and consent.
In the 1920s, Einstein became an active leader of the international anti-war movement and supported conscientious objection. However, the Nazi rise to power brought about a substantial change in Einstein's position: he began to advocate military preparedness by the European democracies against the threat of Nazism. In this context, Einstein wrote his famous letter to U.S. President Roosevelt in which he urged him to initiate an American nuclear research programme. With the onset of the atomic era, Einstein realized that nuclear weapons were a profound risk to humanity and could bring an end to civilization. During the last decade of his life, he was tireless in his efforts to create effective international cooperation to prevent war.
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein felt a close affinity with the Jewish people. Einstein defined Judaism as a culture with a shared historical past and common ethical values rather than as an institutionalized religion. For him the main values of Judaism were intellectual aspiration and the pursuit of social justice. Like Spinoza, he did not believe in a personal god, but that the divine reveals itself in the physical world. Einstein supported the creation of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. However, he stipulated that any solution of the Arab-Jewish conflict had to be based on mutual understanding and consent.
http://www.albert-einstein.org/.index2.html
Citat:
http://www.geocities.com/einstein_library/index.htm
Ursprungligen postat av Albert Einstein Library
Until the rise of Nazism in the 1930's, Einstein was an ardent pacifist. After the war, he became an equally determined supporter of world government. He insisted that peace among nations could be maintained in the atomic age only by bringing all people together under a system of world law.
Citat:
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm
Ursprungligen postat av Albert Einstein - essä skriven 1931
"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Visserligen stödde han sionismen - men mer som en motvikt mot anti-semitism, än som ett i sig gott syfte.
Citat:
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/public2.htm
Anti-Semitism was openly pursued by the powerful political right and the emerging Nazi party since 1919. Nazi physicists and their followers violently denounced Einstein's theory of relativity as "Jewish-Communist physics." At times his friends feared for his safety. Such anti-Semitism was one reason why Einstein, although he believed in world government rather than nationalism, gave public support to Zionism. "In so far as a particular community is attacked as such," he said, "it is bound to defend itself as such, so that its individual members may be able to maintain their material and spiritual interests... In present circumstances the rebuilding of Palestine is the only object that has a sufficiently strong appeal to stimulate the Jews to effective corporate action." But he objected to a law that required him to join the official Jewish religious community in Berlin. He said, "Much as I feel myself a Jew, I feel far removed from traditional religious forms."
1935 så talade han vid en påskhögtid i New York om vikten av att judar och palestiner kunde samsas.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/public3.htm
Så, som jag uppfattat honom - så var han närmast att betrakta som humanist och pacifist, icke-religiös och
anhängare till tanken på en världs-regering. Knappast något som sionismen omfattar i alla delar.
Har någon nån annan åsikt eller källa så är jag givetvis intresserad av detta.
Mer info om Albert Einstein:
Albert Einstein Archives (The Jewish National & University Library)
http://www.albert-einstein.org/
Einsteins Papers Project (Caltech)
http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
Einstein Archives Online
http://www.alberteinstein.info/
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton)
http://pup.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/cpe.html
Einstein Revealed (PBS / Nova)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
Einstein - Image and Impact (American Institute of Physics)
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
Albert Einstein Library
http://www.geocities.com/einstein_library/index.htm
Albert Einstein Online (Länksamling, många fungerar inte)
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
Citatsamling
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%.../Einstein.html
Bildsamling
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.d...ceinstein.html