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Tag: relativism

  • December 24, 2020 Jef Costello 7
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    Living in Truth:
    A Yuletide Homily

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    Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

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    The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, Western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these — underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest — is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) (more…)

  • June 25, 2019 Greg Johnson 10
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    Objectivity, Relativism, & the Pursuit of Happiness

    Socrates

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    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; (more…)

  • May 13, 2019 Greg Johnson 2
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    Historicizing the Historicists:
    Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

    Max Weber

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    Part 1 here

    The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

    Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

    First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: (more…)

  • May 10, 2019 Greg Johnson 3
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    Historicizing the Historicists:
    Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

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    Part 1 of 2 

    Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? (more…)

  • December 21, 2017 Jef Costello 4
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    Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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    Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

    2,587 words

    The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.)  (more…)

  • October 16, 2017 Trevor Lynch 9
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    Rashomon & Realism

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    Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is commonly found on lists of the world’s greatest movies, and deservedly so. Rashomon features avant-garde narrative techniques (flashbacks, multiple points of view), dynamic black-and-white cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, compelling Ravel-like music by Fumio Hayasaka, subtle and intensely dramatic performances, and a complex but tightly edited script, all combined into a fast-paced 88-minute masterpiece with an emotionally devastating climax. (more…)

  • August 26, 2016 Jonathan Bowden 3
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    The Essence of the Left

    MarxGnomes6,047 words

    Editor’s Note:

    This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the Left. You can listen to the podcast here. 

    Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Today, it is a great pleasure to welcome to the program Jonathan Bowden. (more…)

  • February 25, 2016 Greg Johnson
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    Carl Schmitt sobre la Tiranía de los Valores

    Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

    Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus y Solon, 1624

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    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. (more…)

  • December 22, 2015 Jef Costello 2
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    Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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    Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

    2,587 words

    The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.)  (more…)

  • February 5, 2015 Carl Schmitt
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    Tirania valorilor

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    Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

    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]. 

    Introducere

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  • December 23, 2014 Jef Costello 2
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    Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

    471px-Champaigne_Philippe_de_-_Saint_Augustin_-_1645-1650

    Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

    2,587 words

    The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.)  (more…)

  • October 2, 2014 Giuliano Adriano Malvicini
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    Dugin contra el Racismo

    duginosetia3,569 words

    Traducción por A. Garrido.

    Enlace original en

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  • September 12, 2014 Giuliano Adriano Malvicini 3
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    Dugin on the Subject of Politics

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    A agent of chaos: Alexander Dugin with the chaos star, symbol of Eurasianism[1]

    An agent of chaos: Alexander Dugin with the chaos star, symbol of Eurasianism[1]

    Dugin’s Social Constructionism

    The claim that there is no biological basis for the concept of race, or that it is not useful in explaining contemporary reality, is of course patently false. But Dugin follows postmodern thinkers like Foucault and Althusser in arguing that not only race, but all political subjects are constructs.  (more…)

  • September 11, 2014 Giuliano Adriano Malvicini 12
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    Dugin Contra Racism

    3,426 words

    duginosetiaSpanish translation here

    Most White Nationalists are aware at this point that Alexander Dugin is not one of us. Dugin has stated that he views race as a social construct. (more…)

  • August 8, 2014 Greg Johnson 13
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    Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 3

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    Part 3 of 3

    Editor’s Note: 

    Leo Strauss

    Leo Strauss

    In the previous installment of this series, I examined Leo Strauss’s argument that the roots of what he called “German nihilism” — including National Socialism — were not nihilistic. Instead, it is rooted in a moral critique of the modern world. In this installment, I examine his argument that these non-nihilistic motives gave rise to nihilism because of certain contingent historical circumstances.  (more…)

  • July 11, 2014 Greg Johnson 7
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    Carl Schmitt on the Tyranny of Values

    Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

    Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

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    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. (more…)

  • July 10, 2014 Carl Schmitt
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    The Tyranny of Values, 1967

    6,572 words

    Trans. Simona Draghici, Romanian translation here

    Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

    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.

    (more…)

  • July 9, 2014 Carl Schmitt 1
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    The Tyranny of Values, 1959

    Schmitt55,218 words

    The Reflections of a Jurist upon the Philosophy of Values Dedicated to Those who Were at Ebrach in 1959

    Trans. Simona Draghici

    Editor’s Note: (more…)

  • January 8, 2014 Greg Johnson 4
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 81 
    The Pursuit of Happiness 
    Objectivity, Relativism, & Well-Being

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

  • December 23, 2013 Jef Costello 5
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    Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

    471px-Champaigne_Philippe_de_-_Saint_Augustin_-_1645-1650

    Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

    2,587 words

    The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.)  (more…)

  • August 15, 2012 François-Xavier Rochette
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    O relativismu

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    English original here

    “Filosofický” relativismus bezpochyby představuje jednu z nejhorších chorob zachvacujících naši společnost. Mezi jeho charakteristické rysy patří jeho neurčitý charakter, pseudovědecká logika a nádech tolerance (představující největší hodnotu našeho postmoderního světa), všechny dohromady mu pak vtiskují rysy, jež jej zvýhodnují oproti konkurenčním filosofickým proudům. (more…)

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