Tag Archives: Plato

When They Fight, They Fight

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,613 words

The enemy is not merely any competitor or just any partner of a conflict in general. He is also not the private adversary whom one hates. An enemy exists only when, at least potentially, one fighting collectivity of people confronts a similar collectivity. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, Carl Schmitt, Civil War, friend/enemy dichotomy, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, police, sovereignty | 9 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
Network

145 words / 60:58

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

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, capitalism, Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, desire, end of history, globalization, Greg Johnson, idealism, morality, movie reviews, Network, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Buchanan, podcasts, popular culture, populism, reason, Ross Perot, Ted Kaczynski, thumos | 5 Responses

The Fine Art of Automotive Repair

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,086 words

Say you’re trying to fix a vehicle. You pop open the hood and find that someone threw a wrench in the gears, the relay is worn, and the battery needs replacing. How do you then fix the vehicle? Well, you remove the wrench from the gears, replace the relay and the battery and then check for additional damage (you never know with cars). Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, individualism, liberalism, materialism, monarchism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Platonism, religion, society | 6 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 266
Pulp Fiction

141 words / 76:09

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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.

Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric

Alex Graham

2,309 words

Richard Weaver
The Ethics of Rhetoric
Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953).

The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction to this vanishing art. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, dialectic, eros, logos, North American New Right, oratory, originals, Platonism, rhetoric, Richard Weaver | 6 Responses

Richard Weaver’s Ideas & Their Consequences

James J. O'Meara

7,566 words

Richard M. Weaver
Ideas Have Consequences
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948
Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013.

The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Decline of the West, essays, European prehistory, Frankfurt School, Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, Richard Weaver | 3 Responses

Bojovný duch Evropanů

Achilles in examinen Hectora saevit (1766)

1,607 slov

English original here

Poznámka autora:
Následuje text mého projevu na první konferenci Probuzení (Awakening-konferenssin), pořádané v Helsinkách 8. dubna 2018. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Awakening Conference, bourgeois man, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Evropa, Greg Johnson, honor, in Czech, liberalism, Liberalismus, manliness, masculinity, Multikulturalismus, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, thumos, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Be All You Can Be:
On Joining the Military

Ash Donaldson

4,352 words

You have asked me whether you should join the military. Given what I wrote, you wonder, does a racially conscious white male have any business in the armed forces? Read more …

Published: August 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action in the military, articles, Ash Donaldson, North American New Right, originals, Socrates, the military, US military, Xenophon | 22 Responses

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

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

5,530 words

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 ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, North American New Right, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

Objectivity, Relativism, & the Pursuit of Happiness

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, moral philosophy, North American New Right, objectivity, originals, philosophy, relativism, Socrates, subjectivism, The Pursuit of Happiness | 10 Responses

Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Giambattista Vico

5,481 words

Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

7,688 words

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 ancient Greeks, 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, reason, reprints, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Thomas Hobbes, Western uniqueness | 5 Responses

“Hotter than Georgia asphalt”
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart

Trevor Lynch

4,326 words

Wild at Heart is not David Lynch’s best movie, but it is my favorite. I would argue, for instance, that Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, and The Straight Story are all better films. But for some reason they do not call me back year after year like Wild at Heart.

Wild at Heart was released in the summer of 1990, when Lynch was riding high on Twin Peaks mania. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival, albeit over vocal protests. Read more …

Published: February 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime, David Lynch, individualism, Kali Yuga, liberalism, movie reviews, narcissism, North American New Right, religion, reprints, sexual liberation, thumos, Trevor Lynch | 15 Responses

Fukuyama on Civic Nationalism

3,801 words

In his new book Identity, Francis Fukuyama seeks to forestall the rise of white identity politics. Nevertheless, as I argue in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” Identity is a very useful book for White Nationalists because it concedes many of our most important premises. In “Fukuyama on Diversity,” I argue that Fukuyama admits that diversity is a problem and offers only very weak reasons to value it at all. Here I examine Fukuyama’s alternative to white identity politics, namely a conservative form of color-blind civic nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, European Union, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, thumos, United States | 10 Responses

Fukuyama on Diversity

3,282 words

Francis Fukuyama’s latest book Identity was written to forestall the rise of Right-wing identity politics, but, as I argued in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” the book is actually very useful to White Nationalists because it concedes a number of our basic premises while offering weak reasons to resist our ultimate political conclusions. This is especially apparent in his discussion of diversity.

Fukuyama on Identity Politics

3,837 words

Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
London: Profile Books, 2018[1]

Francis Fukuyama is the most eminent living neoconservative intellectual. I have admired and benefitted from his work since 1992, when he published his first book, The End of History and the Last Man. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, thumos | 7 Responses

Noble Truths for Modern Mad Men

James J. O'Meara

4,562 words

Andrew Lynn
Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man
Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man
Howgill House Books, 2017

“In a time of universal triviality, seeking answers to the great questions of existence is . . . a revolutionary course of action. Those who have the humility to ask the question ‘Could it be us who have gone astray?’ are the true radicals.”–Andrew Lynn Read more …

Published: August 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Freidrich Nietzsche, James J. O'Meara, Neville Goddard, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

L’Esprit Combatif Européen

2,309 words

Traduction de l’anglais : Pia Chantre; English original here

Précisions de l’auteur :

Il s’agit ici du texte de mon discours à la première Conférence du Réveil (The Awakening Conference), qui s’est tenue à Helsinki (en Finlande) le 8 avril 2018. Le sujet qui m’avait été donné de présenter était l’Esprit combatif européen. Comme à mon habitude, j’ai un peu improvisé à partir du texte que j’avais préparé. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, bourgeois man, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, honor, in French, in translation, liberalism, nationalism, North American New Right, thumos, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Eurooppalainen taisteluhenki

1,269 words

Suomentanut Timo Hännikäinen, English original here

Puhe Awakening-konferenssissa Helsingissä 8.4.2018

”Laulaos, oi runotar, viha Peleun poian Akhilleun / turmiokas, mi akhaijeja löi lukemattomin tuskin, monta mi Hadeen luo väkivoipaa sielua syöksi / sankarien, heist’ itsestään teki koirien riistan, / lintujen eineen”. Näin alkaa Homeroksen Ilias, länsimaisen sivilisaation ensimmäinen kirja. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, bourgeois man, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, honor, in Finnish, in translation, liberalism, nationalism, North American New Right, reprints, thumos, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Leave a comment

The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 2

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.
Read more …

Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cicero, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, irony, moral philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 1 Response

The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 1

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, moral philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates, Xenophon | 4 Responses

Introduction to Vedanta, Part III
The Katha Upanishad, Continued

Lord Yama instructs Nachiketa, as related in the Katha Upanishad.

4,644 words

Part I here, Part II here, Part IV here

In the last installment of this series, we saw that the Katha Upanishad tells the story of Nachiketa, a boy who is tutored by Yama, the god of death. The boy makes a request of Yama, which at first the god does not want to grant: “When a person dies, there arises this doubt: ‘he still exists,’ say some, ‘he does not’ say others. I want you to teach me the truth.” But Yama soon realizes that Nachiketa is a worthy student, and begins to teach. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, egoism, God, hinduism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, self-actualization, the Self, Vedanta | 2 Responses

Az európai harci szellem

Tanulmány két harcos fejéhez. Leonardo da Vinci vázlata az Anghiari csata című falképhez (Szépművészeti Múzeum)

1,613 words

English original here

A szerző megjegyzése

Az alábbi beszédet 2018. április 8-án Helsinkiben az első alkalommal megrendezett Ébredés Konferencián adtam elő. A szervezők arra kértek, hogy az európai harci szellemről beszéljek. Szokás szerint kicsit improvizáltam, és eltértem az előkészített szövegtől. Szeretnék köszönetet mondani a szervezőknek, a találkozó mintegy 200 résztvevőjének, és annak a Counter-Currents olvasónak, akinek az adománya lehetővé tette, hogy a konferenciára utazzak. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, bourgeois man, cikkek, eredeti írások, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, honor, in Hungarian, liberalism, nationalism, North American New Right, thumos, translations, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Leave a comment

The European Fighting Spirit

2,031 words

Translations: Finnish, French, Hungarian, Czech

Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Two Warriors’ Heads for the Battle of Anghiari

Author’s Note:

This is the text of my talk from the first Awakening Conference, which was held in Helsinki on April 8, 2018. The topic I was asked to speak on was the European fighting spirit. As usual, I improvised a bit and departed from my prepared text. I wish to thank the organizers of the Awakening Conference, the approximately 200 people who attended the meeting, and the Counter-Currents reader whose gift made this trip possible. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, bourgeois man, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, honor, liberalism, manliness, masculinity, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, thumos, warrior ethics, white nationalism | 12 Responses

Music as Revolt Against the Modern World:
Envy’s Atheist’s Cornea

Archilochus

Envy’s Tetsuya Fukagawa

3,910 words

Opening remarks

οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ κινοῦνται μουσικῆς τρόποι ἄνευ πολιτικῶν νόμων τῶν μεγίστων (Plato, Republic 424c)

“The forms of music are not changed without the most significant socio-political mores and laws being changed with them.” So writes Plato in his chef-d’œuvre. This insight is borne out by history, and perhaps never more so than in our own time, the post-war twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Japan, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, warrior ethos | Leave a comment

Ancestral Being, Part Four

Siegfried & Mime, Arthur Rackham, 1911

2,325 words

Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here)

7. Concluding Reflections

I turn now to some thoughts on how the foregoing treatment of the influence of the past on the present ought to affect our own present, when we finish this essay and return to the real world.

It is a well-known fact that our ancestors acted with awareness of membership in the clan: trying to be worthy of their own ancestors, and not to disgrace them. Read more …

Published: March 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, death, East vs. West, ethnicity, fylgja, Germanic tradition, hamingja, Heraclitus, heritage, heroism, individualism, logos, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, originals, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual | 4 Responses

Ancestral Being, Part Two

The Norns by Johannes Gehrts, 1889

4,547 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

4. Tradition

Having now discussed the clannic being of the individual purely in philosophical terms, I now turn to a consideration of the treatment of this idea in the Germanic tradition.

The first thing we must note is what can be called the “primacy of the past” in that tradition. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, C. G. Jung, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, time, Volsunga Saga | 1 Response

Ancestral Being, Part One

4,538 words

Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

1. Introduction

This essay presents an “ontology of the individual.” The theory is new, though it has very old roots. “Ontology” is the branch of philosophy that studies being-as-such, or “being as being,” as Aristotle expressed it.[1] My argument is that the being of an individual person is bound up with that individual’s relation to his family or clan. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, G. W. F. Hegel, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, heritage, metaphysics, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, the future, the individual, time | 2 Responses

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