Tag Archives: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

14,711 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Greg Johnson’s interview with Laura Raim on the Alternative Right. To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Read more …

Published: September 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, the mixed regime, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

Greg Johnson

1:54:07 / 302 words

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Between Two Lampshades
Michael Enoch Interviews Greg Johnson, Part 3

Greg Johnson

6,423 words

Part 3 of 3

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What follows is the transcript by V. S. of Michael Enoch’s Between Two Lampshades interview with Greg Johnson on The Right Stuff. You can listen to it here.

GJ: There’s another argument that I want to make about laissez-faire capitalism: Read more …

Published: June 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Between Two Lampshades, drugs, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, interviews, Kevin MacDonald, libertarianism, living well, marijuana, Michael Enoch, Neo-Reaction, NRX, paternalism, Plato, self-actualization, the Jewish question, The Right Stuff, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Forzados a ser Libres:
El caso del Paternalismo

Greg Johnson

649 words

English original here

Paternalismo significa tratar a la gente como niños. Los niños carecen de madurez y sabiduría para tomar sus propias decisiones. Por lo tanto necesitan padres – o gente que ejerza el rol paternal – que les diga que hacer y, en ocasiones, forzarlos a hacerlo.

La mayoría de la gente no tiene problema con el paternalismo cuando trata con niños, tanto como con retardados, seniles o insanos. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, freedom, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, libertarianism, living well, negative liberty, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy, Plato, positive liberty | Comments closed

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Forced to be Free:
The Case for Paternalism

Greg Johnson

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

626 words

Spanish translation here

Paternalism means treating people like children. Children lack the maturity and wisdom to make their own decisions. Thus they need parents — or people playing the paternal role — to tell them what to do and, on occasion, to force them to do it.

Most people have no problem with paternalism when dealing with actual children, as well as the retarded, the senile, and the insane. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, freedom, Greg Johnson, libertarianism, living well, negative liberty, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy, Plato, positive liberty | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald
Vanity, Pretentiousness, & Snobbery

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John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus

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Published: May 1, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged beauty, Counter-Currents Radio, education, elitism, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, narcissism, podcasts, pretentiousness, psychology, snobbery, taste, vanity | Comments closed

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Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

5,017 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Republic. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness and corrected a couple of small mistakes.

Plato writes in his seventh letter that he never set forth his own philosophy in any of his writings. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfarabi, Allan Bloom, Aristotle, articles, esotericism, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Republic, thumos | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
An Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

37:04 / 166 words

Part 2 of 2

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What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 5 of 10

Greg Johnson

45:21 / 361 words

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Note: This installment has a somewhat choppy quality in places because of extensive discussion, Read more …

Published: July 31, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged ethics, euthanasia, G. W. F. Hegel, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, Napoleon Bonaparte, negative liberty, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, positive liberty, punishment, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, suicide, the Sophists | Comments closed

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Romanticism & Classicism

T. E. Hulme

7,106 words

I want to maintain that after a hundred years of romanticism, we are in for a classical revival, and that the particular weapon of this new classical spirit, when it works in verse, will be fancy.[1] And in this I imply the superiority of fancy—not superior generally or absolutely, for that would be obvious nonsense, but superior in the sense that we use the word good in empirical ethics—good for something, superior for something. Read more …