Tag Archives: David Hume

Mr. Gurdjieff

7,589 words

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Collin Cleary, epistemology, esotericism, George Gurdjieff, knowing, mechanicality, metaphysics, modernity, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, René Descartes, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 12 Responses

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Is & Ought:
Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature

John Wright

2,530 words

Lorraine Daston
Against Nature
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019

Loraine Daston’s Against Nature has two qualities that make it a good book. First, it is physically a good book: slim but well-bound, it fits comfortably in the hand and slides easily into the pocket. And there is more than tactile pleasure to be had. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, book reviews, logos, morality, nature, North American New Right, originals, society | 2 Responses

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Carl Schmitt sobre la Tiranía de los Valores

Greg Johnson

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus y Solon, 1624

2,271 words

English original here

Los dos ensayos de Carl Schmitt sobre “La Tiranía de los Valores” (1959 y 1967) son típicos de su trabajo. Contienen simples e iluminadoras ideas las cuales, sin embargo, son complicadas de poner en conjunto porque Schmitt las presenta sólo a través de conversaciones complejas con otros pensadores y escuelas de pensamiento. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservatism, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moral philosophy, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, relativism, skepticism | Leave a comment

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Carl Schmitt on the Tyranny of Values

Greg Johnson

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

2,108 words

Spanish translation here

Carl Schmitt’s two essays on “The Tyranny of Values” (1959 and 1967) are typical of his work. They contain simple and illuminating ideas which are nevertheless quite difficult to piece together because Schmitt presents them only through complex conversations with other thinkers and schools of thought. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservatism, Greg Johnson, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moral philosophy, moralism, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, relativism, skepticism | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 85
The Pursuit of Happiness
Harmony, Inner & Outer, Part 1

Greg Johnson

51:13 / 139 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 22, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged desire, ethics, Greg Johnson, harmony, living well, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rationality, Socrates, Taoism, The Pursuit of Happiness, thumos | 2 Responses

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The Beginning & the End of History

Greg Johnson

1,493 words

The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, C. S. Lewis, capitalism, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, thumos, warrior ethics | 16 Responses

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ABC of Economics, Part 5 & Conclusion

Ezra Pound

2,810 words

Part 5 of 5

Chapter I

Minor Addenda and Varia

I have never met a gambler with an ounce of intelligence, but the prejudice against lotteries is in the category of superstitions, totemism and taboo. Lotteries can harm only the imbeciles who buy tickets, but these imbeciles appear to be wholly in their own right. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ABC of Economics, banking, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, deflation, dictatorship, economics, Ezra Pound, inflation, money, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, taxation, the gold standard, Third Way economics | 1 Response

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On Oratory

Andrew Hamilton

Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, "Demosthenes Practicing Oratory," 1870

3,389 words

There is a vast gulf between oratory, on the one hand, and public speaking on the other.

By oratory I mean the art of speaking in the style we associate with great orators of the Western past, not elaborate, formal, public discourses treating important topics in a stiff, formal, or dignified manner.