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Tag: idealism

  • February 18, 2022 Collin Cleary Print

    Fichte as Avatar of the Metaphysics of Presence

    6,383 words

    1. Introduction: Remind me, why Fichte?

    Readers have been asking me why I am devoting multiple essays to J. G. Fichte, an exceedingly difficult and seldom-read German Idealist born in 1762. The simple answer is that these essays are a continuation of my series on Heidegger’s “history of metaphysics.” Having devoted several essays to Kant, I am continuing with Fichte, then will move on to Schelling and Hegel, and then, finally, to Nietzsche. (more…)

  • January 11, 2022 Collin Cleary 3 comments Print

    Fichte & the Primacy of Practical Reason

    J. G. Fichte meets Immanuel Kant, 1791

    6,194 words

    1. “The circumference of my world is equivalent to the limits of my will.”

    In my last essay, we established that for Fichte self-consciousness is an ultimate fact. We saw via our own experiments in introspection that the “I” — this “presence” that says, in effect “I am” — is not simply a feature of the self, it is the self. (more…)

  • December 30, 2021 Collin Cleary 2 comments Print

    Fichte on Self-Consciousness as the Foundation of All Knowledge

    J. G. Fichte

    4,888 words

    1. Fichte’s Foundationalism

    J. G. Fichte holds that the human self has no intrinsic identity, aside from that which we create for it. He completely rejects the notion that our identity is in any way determined by nature. This is the modern “blank slate” theory pushed to a radical extreme. It is to Fichte that we must look if we wish to find the philosophical origins of current intellectual fashions such as “gender fluidity,” “social construction” of race and gender, and radical egalitarian claims about human perfectibility. (more…)

  • December 17, 2021 Collin Cleary 4 comments Print

    Fichte & the Self-Assertion of the Ego

    6,227 words

    1. Martin Heidegger Reads Fichte

    On June 25, 1929, Heidegger wrote to Karl Jaspers, “At the present moment I am lecturing on Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling for the first time — and once more a new world opens up before me. (more…)

  • May 19, 2021 Collin Cleary 7 comments Print

    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Seven:
    Kant’s Transcendental Idealism

    1974 West German Bundespost stamp, commemorating Kant’s 250th birthday

    5,568 words

    Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here

    1. Introduction

    In the previous essay in this series, we saw Heidegger claiming that Leibniz “prepares” the completion of the metaphysical tradition, but that it is Nietzsche who actually brings it about. I will devote a future essay to Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche, but we may note here that the completion of metaphysics would have been impossible without Kant, who answers Leibniz and inadvertently prepares the way for Nietzsche. (more…)

  • January 14, 2021 Jim Baumer 31 comments Print

    When Your Child Dies for a Cause

    Mark Baumer

    1,534 words

    So much of what passes for journalism these days is reductionist. What is worse is that there is an ideological underpinning that once would have been considered unacceptable in filing news stories. The tragic death of Ashli Babbitt and the way it’s been covered in the days following her being shot by a member of DC’s Capitol police illustrates the Left-leaning bent of today’s media establishment. Then, of course, there is the garbage excusing a black cop shooting a white woman because. . . he was scared and his superiors weren’t supportive. Bullshit! (more…)

  • August 5, 2020 Spencer J. Quinn 1 comment Print

    The Prison Plays of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    5,026 words

    Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag (more…)

  • April 3, 2020 Greg Johnson 5 comments Print

    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
    Network

    145 words / 60:58

    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, (more…)

  • February 27, 2020 M. A. Meretvuo 1 comment Print

    Arab Spring Through the Looking Glass:
    A Polemic Essay

    2,398 words

    Protesters march on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in downtown Tunis, 14 Jan 2011

    One spark can ignite the whole world, or at least one part of it. It was December 17, 2010, when a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi pushed his handcart down to the market in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Police approached him and accused him of violating regulations he hadn’t. They demanded money, and when he had none, they humiliated him and took his vegetable scales. Bouazizi went to the town office to complain, but was refused. (more…)

  • August 15, 2018 Greg Johnson 8 comments Print

    A Winning Ethos

    Franz von Stuck, “The Spirit of Victory”

    3,874 words

    Author’s Note:

    This text is based on a talk I gave at the Victoria Forum on July 28th. I want to thank my hosts and everyone who attended for a wonderful weekend. 

    The White Nationalist movement is more like a subculture than a political party. (more…)

  • August 15, 2018 Asklepios 6 comments Print

    Marxism vs. National Socialism:
    The Struggle Between Race & Internationalism

    4,071 words

    “The conflict which is going on regarding the true view of man and the world will be brought to an issue rather by men of the prophetic type than by dogmatists and philosophers.”
    –Heinrich Weinel, 1903[1]

    Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler describes what he calls a world-concept, or Weltanschauung. In its usual sense, the word basically means worldview, but when Hitler uses the term it means an all-encompassing social, philosophical, and political idea that has become politically organized. (more…)

  • July 22, 2016 Julius Evola 2 comments Print

    Biological Youth & Political Youth

    1,299 words

    Translated by G. A. Malvicini

    YouthA frequently discussed issue among Right-wing circles is the new generation and its relations with the previous one; “revolutionary” youth in relation to the men and ideas of the Fascist period. Some, in this regard, believe that the same phenomenon is met with here that can be observed more generally: the new generation no longer understands the generation that preceded it, the accelerated pace of events having interposed between the one and the other a mental distance much larger than that which in other times normally would have separated them.  (more…)

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