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Notes on Philosophical Dialectic

4,218 words

Socrates

Part 1 of 2

The concept of philosophical dialectic is quite mysterious and intimidating. Even among professional philosophers, dialectic often has connotations of mysticism, obscurantism, and slight of hand. I wish to dispel this aura. I will lay out the elements of philosophical dialectic by looking at specific arguments in Plato’s Republic[1] and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right[2] and then employ Heidegger’s account of the hermeneutic circle Being and Time and Husserl’s account of the logic of parts and wholes in his Logical Investigations to clarify the dialectical process. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dialectic, free will, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, justice, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Philosophy of Right, Plato, Socrates, The Republic | 4 Responses

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Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого, часть 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,457 words

English original here

Перевод: Голубаев Евгений

Умеренность & гуманность

Хотя монарх и обладает властью, но подобно отцу, он должен эту власть заслужить. Фридрих беспристрастно отмечает, что Попликола, один из основателей Римской республики узаконил тираноубийство. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, justice, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment

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Просвещенный абсолютизм:
Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого

Guillaume Durocher

2,521 words

English original here

Перевод – Голубаев Евгений

Возможно, самая впечатляющая западная традиция государственного строительства, по крайней мере в Новое время, принадлежит Пруссии. Разумеется, либерально-демократическая традиция, начатая Соединенными Штатами и Францией крепка, и она недаром сегодня господствует в нашем мире. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment

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The Willful State:
Frederick the Great’s Report on the Prussian Government

Guillaume Durocher

Julius Schrader, Frederick the Great after the Battle of Kolin

5,086 words

Frederick the Great
Exposé du gouvernement prussien, des principes sur lesquels il roule, avec quelques réflexions politiques
Berlin, 1775-1776[1]

One often encounters people who have no faith in the ability of a small nation to achieve anything worthwhile.[2] Yet one typically does not have the luxury of choice. One may prefer to live in a large and populous country, but in any event one must work with what one has. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, finance, Foreign Policy, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, warfare | Comments closed

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Mirror for Princes

Frederick the Great

Charles-Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728-1793)

1,683 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text was addressed to Duke Charles-Eugene of Württemberg on February 6, 1744, on the occasion of his turning 16 and the end of his regency as a minor, to advise him on how to be a good monarch. Charles-Eugene was Frederick the Great’s nephew-in-law and had been raised in part at his court in Prussia. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles-Eugene Duke of Württemberg, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, Mirrors for Princes, North American New Right, originals, translations | Comments closed

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Enlightened Patriarchy:
Frederick the Great’s Principles of Lawmaking, Part 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,925 words

Part 2 of 2; Russian translation here

Moderation & Humaneness

The sovereign has authority but, as with the father, this must be deserved. Frederick notes dispassionately that Publicola, one of the founders of the Roman Republic, had legalized tyrannicide. The laws must be fair and appropriate to the nation concerned, Read more …

Published: November 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abortion, articles, cruel and unusual punishment, dueling, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, illegitimacy, justice, national character, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, rhetoric, Sparta, usury | Comments closed

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Enlightened Patriarchy:
Frederick the Great’s Principles of Lawmaking

Guillaume Durocher

2,887 words

Frederick the Great

Russian translation here

Perhaps the most impressive Western tradition of statecraft, at least in the modern era, is that of Prussia. To be sure, the liberal-democratic tradition launched by the United States and France is formidable, and it is not without reason that it today dominates our world. But the greatness of America and France also relied upon a prosaic factor: sheer demographic and geographic size. Read more …

Published: November 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, patriarchy, Prussia, Sparta | Comments closed

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Carl Schmitt is Right:
Liberal Nations Have Open Borders Because They Have No Concept of the Political

Ricardo Duchesne

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

3,509 words

Before World War II liberal rights were understood among Western states in a libertarian and ethno-nationalistic way. Freedom of association, for example, was understood to include the right to refuse to associate with certain members of certain ethnic groups, even the right to discriminate in employment practices. This racial liberalism was still institutionalized right up until the 1960s. The settler nations of Australia, Canada, United States, and New Zealand enjoyed admission and naturalization policies based on race and culture, intended to keep these nations “White.”

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Greg Johnson

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

252 words

Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right.

Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

Greg Johnson

465 words

Francis Parker Yockey was born on this day in 1917 in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.