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Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

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1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition. According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alētheia, anti-modernism, Aristotle, articles, being, Collin Cleary, concealment, Dasein, Edmund Husserl, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, myth, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, phusis, Plato, Platonism, presence, primordial metaphysics, Socrates, the Forms, tradition, Traditionalism, truth, Western philosophy | 13 Responses

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The Immense Revolution of the Presocratics

Ricardo Duchesne

Oil painting of Heraclitus by Etienne Parrocel (1696-1775)

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To understand why Europeans were the progenitors of the highest accomplishments in history – close to one hundred percent of the great ideas in philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geology, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, technology, dance, and music – you must understand the Presocratic self-conscious separation of the knowing “I” from the “not-I.” Read more …

Published: September 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Council of European Canadians, Heraclitus, North American New Right, Parmenides, presocratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness, Western uniqueness | 4 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

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On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

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As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, China, Chinese philosophy, Confucius, Council of European Canadians, cultural relativism, East vs. West, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, North American New Right, Plato, reason, reprints, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Thomas Hobbes, Western uniqueness | 5 Responses

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The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians

Ricardo Duchesne

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Europeans were the first – and are still the only – race to become conscious of their consciousness, to identify the faculty of thinking as the point from which all knowledge must proceed in separation from all extra-intellectual sources and inclinations, be they conventions of the time, religious mandates, or emotional inclinations.

Colin Wilson’s The Outsider

Sir Oswald Mosley

6,580 words

The following review was published in The European, a journal owned and published by Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife, Diana, between 1953 and 1959, in its February 1957 issue. Read more …

Published: November 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Colin Wilson, existentialism, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hermann Hesse, heroism, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, literary criticism, North American New Right, reprints, Sir Oswald Mosley, William Blake | 4 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Council of European Canadians, evolutionary psychology, North American New Right, racial differences, René Descartes, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 6 Responses

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Colin Wilson’s The Outsider

Sir Oswald Mosley

6,580 words

The following review was published in The European, a journal owned and published by Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife, Diana, between 1953 and 1959, in its February 1957 issue. Read more …