Antoun Saadeh was born on 1-3-1904, and his thought was born during his lifetime, A mercy bullet stopped Saadeh’s life with death, Saadeh died murdered without a grave, memorial, or funeral, but the social thought he started is still alive, He was the only and most important social thinker in the Middle East region.

On the occasion of his birth, we remember his thinking first and foremost. Thinking is civilization, and thought is one of its products that changes from time to time. In this article, we try to explain some aspects of the thinking and thought of Antoun Saadeh, the social nationalist.

If we were to ask whether the National Socialist ideology has a philosophy, we would not find a convincing answer to this question, so let us ask the National Socialist thinker Hisham Sharabi.

“The National Social Movement is not a philosophical society,” Hisham Sharabi said in a lecture he gave in March 1954, “When we say that the movement offers a comprehensive view of life, the universe and art, we do not mean that the movement has philosophical texts to present to everyone who asks us about our view of art, the universe and life.”

But it can be said that the National Socialist doctrine is a social philosophy that deals with the individual as a social being, and does not deal with him as an independent existence. Saadeh said, “The emergence of the individual’s personality is one of the greatest exceptional moments in history, but the formation of society is the most complete and most effective in life.” It is a social philosophy that cares about the active and living social existence, and its interaction at all levels with its environment, surroundings, and components, far from the metaphysical and the transcendental.

Philosophy, in one of its definitions, is a vision and a continuous, renewed questioning. Therefore, it is possible to say that the philosophy of the National Socialist ideology is defined by the following characteristics:

The National Socialist doctrine is a philosophy that begins with society and ends with society, and it views the individual as a social being, The individual does not become a human being, nor do his human talents blossom, nor are his knowledge and experiences renewed except in an organized society, Without social existence, man cannot be a civilization,The book “The Origin of Nations” is the only reference in this East that examines the issue of the emergence of human society, its development, its system, and its ultimate meaning in human life.

If the Syrian Social Nationalist ideology is a social philosophy that does not concern itself with metaphysics, it does not neglect to view religion as an important factor in life from a socio-political point of view,Accusing the Syrian Social Nationalist movement of not caring about religion as a social phenomenon is an accusation that is far from reality,The Syrian Social Nationalist movement did not ignore the message of religion and its status, but rather wanted to save this message from falling into the abyss of hateful and backward sectarianism, If society is the arena and scale for the Syrian Social Nationalist ideology, then the Syrian Social Nationalist can be a Christian believer, a Muslim believer, or not a believer in a religious doctrine, and at the same time remain a Syrian Social Nationalist.

In the National Socialist doctrine, society is the goal, because no real renaissance can be achieved except within a social framework, which Syrian nationalism considers the highest objective, When social consciousness is elevated, individual particularities, even the disparate ones, disappear and dissolve into the social movement that embraces them,The individual then becomes a social possibility, without this meaning the erasure of individual existence, Saadeh expressed this by saying, “The most complete existence is social existence.”

Syrian Social Nationalism stressed the adoption of reason as a reference and supreme law, and it has the real effect in the life of man and society, as expressed by Saadeh in the Ten Lectures, Reason here is the summary of experience and intellectual wealth accumulated throughout history, and the rise of the level of awareness and human civilization. Reason here is not just thought and science, but it is the position and how to look at the self and the universe. It is an expression of the humanization of man.

Emphasizing the importance of the mind means focusing on the following points:

The advancement and development of the mind necessarily leads to an awareness of virtues, moral excellence, and progress forward, That is, there is a real interaction between the advancement of the mind and moral excellence. Indeed, the mind is the source and origin of morality.

Saadeh’s focus on the mind aims to incite thinking, or rather to learn ways of thinking, not to transmit ideas,The rules that Saadeh left us are rules of thinking that create the appropriate thought at the appropriate time, as thought has no final molds.

* The Syrian National Socialist doctrine is rational because it is scientific and based on history, geography, and society, Science is the true arena for the mind, its interaction, and its creativity , Therefore, Antoun Saadeh’s thought is a discourse directed to every mind that thinks, strives, and creates.

The moral message and ethical structure of this philosophy: virtues and ethics are not a garment, templates, formal appearances, or a tradition learned through instruction, Rather, they are a deep awareness and a civilized understanding, and working with them requires the interaction of the mind and will to reach the embodiment of virtues and ethics so that they become part of the civilized cultural identity of society.

The Syrian Social Nationalist doctrine is a philosophy of movement in which matter and spirit interact, It is not a philosophy of stagnation and rigidity, but rather growth and progress, It is a dynamic view, not a rigid, passive, or fixed one, in which the work of the mind stops and the effort of thinking is confined and content with merely revolving around the self, so that thought, over time, turns into a sect with rigid faith, It is in fact the basis for a renewed renaissance that saves man from two pains: the pain of investigation and the pain of stumbling that he faces during investigation.

Syrian nationalists were a minority, but they did not remain a minority despite the reactionary efforts to eliminate them, Secularism is the realization and translation of Syrian social nationalism, It possesses the methodology capable of finding solutions to life’s problems,Saving the country requires scientific, secular, ethical, and social thought in order to revive Syrian society, which has been and continues to be subjected to conditions of destruction and devastation by all kinds of weapons, The primary deadly weapon was the ignorant citizen,Due to ignorance and indoctrination, many Syrians were transformed into suicide bombers who turned every weapon against themselves. In order for the country to be renewed for the better, the better human being must be created… the better social human being.