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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Objectivity, Relativism, & the Pursuit of Happiness

Greg Johnson

Socrates

2,151 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by Rollo Walker of a 1999 lecture on “Objectivity, Relativism, and Well-Being.” This text only includes the first half of the transcript, and it has been massively condensed and rewritten.

Socrates is famous for arguing that all human beings pursue happiness; Read more …

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, North American New Right, objectivity, originals, philosophy, Plato, relativism, Socrates, subjectivism, The Pursuit of Happiness | 10 Responses

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The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 2

Greg Johnson

6,811 words

Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin, The Death of Socrates, 1762

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the conclusion of the introductory lecture of an eight-lecture course called The Trial of Socrates. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness and filled in the gap between the two sides of the tape.
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Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cicero, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, irony, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 1 Response

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The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 1

Greg Johnson

6,384 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the introductory lecture of an eight-lecture course called The Trial of Socrates. The lecture was delivered on September 1, 1998. I have previously published six of the lectures, but the Introduction and the final lecture, on Plato’s Phaedo, were thought to be lost. Read more …

Published: August 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eros, ethics, Greg Johnson, irony, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates, Xenophon | 4 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, David Hume, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Max Scheler, Max Weber, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, relativism, skepticism | Leave a comment

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Tirania valorilor

Carl Schmitt

6,138 words

Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

English version here

Nota editorului:

Textul următor, scris în 1967, este unul din cele două eseuri publicate de Carl Schmitt sub titlul „The Tyranny of Values.” Ambele au fost reluate în Die Tyrannei der Werte (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1979). Traducerea este din The Tyranny of Values, iar traducător este Simona Drăghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996), traducere care este dificil de găsit[1].

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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, David Hume, Greg Johnson, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moralism, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, relativism, skepticism | 7 Responses

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The Tyranny of Values, 1967

Carl Schmitt

6,572 words

Trans. Simona Draghici, Romanian translation here

Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

Editor’s Note:

The following text, which was written in 1967, is one of two essays Carl Schmitt published under the title “The Tyranny of Values.” Both were reprinted in Carl Schmitt, Die Tyrannei der Werte (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1979). The translation is from Carl Schmitt, The Tyranny of Values, ed. and trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996), which is out of print and very hard to find. If anyone knows the translator, please put me in contact.