Greg Johnson, David Zsutty, and Angelo Plume (aka Pox Populi: Telegram, YouTube) convened on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, and also answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Tag: Socrates
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Three dissident Right philosophers discussed Greg Johnson‘s book The Trial of Socrates during the second meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club: F. Roger Devlin (author of Sexual Utopia in Power), Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press, and the author himself. All of the participants have an academic background in philosophy. The trial of Socrates is a pivotal event in world history. Before Socrates, philosophy had put society on trial. Now society was striking back. The recording of the stream is now available for download and online listening. Find out what some of the leading luminaries of our movement have to say about this defining moment of our civilization. (more…)
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The New York Times quoted French social critic Jacques Barzun when they defined decadence as the “economic stagnation, institutional decay and cultural and intellectual exhaustion at a high level of material prosperity and technological development,” in a 2020 article entitled “The Age of Decadence.” (more…)
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August 28, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 546
Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,
Lecture 5246 words / 1:05:43
Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, and the last lecture is now available. See below. Topics discussed include:
1. How we can secure ourselves against doing injustice but not really against suffering it? (more…)
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August 22, 2023 Greg Johnson
Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha
Capítulo 6: La Relevancia de la Filosofía para el Cambio Político3.754 palabras
English original here, Traducciones: Francés, Polaco
Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 5 aquí
La más reciente reproducción de este ensayo fue una charla el 14 de octubre de 2012 en Seattle. Quiero dar las gracias por la estimulante discusión a todos los que estuvieron presentes. La presentación original tuvo lugar en mi lección de apertura de las clases sobre Introducción a la Filosofía que daba en la década de 1990 en la universidad. (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
4. The Ascetic Ideal
The third essay that makes up On the Genealogy of Morality is concerned with asceticism, as it has exhibited itself in religion and in philosophy. Nietzsche writes:
I can think of hardly anything that has sapped the health and racial strength of precisely the Europeans so destructively as [the ascetic ideal]; without any exaggeration we are entitled to call it the real catastrophe in the history of the health of Europeans. (more…)
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July 27, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 543
Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,
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July 20, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 542
Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,
Lecture 3Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next two Saturdays later this month (July 22 and 29). The third lecture, focusing on the first third of Socrates’ discussion with Callicles, can be heard below. The first lecture can be heard here, and the second here.
The theme of the course is “Might vs. Right.” Dr. Johnson is using Donald J. Zeyl’s translation of the Gorgias published by Hackett as both a separate book and as part of their Plato Complete Works volume. (more…)
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July 6, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 539
Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,
Lecture 2Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue on three Saturdays later this month (July 15, 22, and 29). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus from 461b to 481b, can be heard below. A visual aid that accompanies the lecture is here.
The theme of the course is “Might vs. Right.” Dr. Johnson is using Donald J. Zeyl’s translation of the Gorgias published by Hackett as both a separate book and as part of their Plato Complete Works volume. (more…)
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The trial and death of Socrates is one of the most compelling places to begin one’s philosophical education. — Greg Johnson, The Trial of Socrates
Everyone strives to obtain the law. — Franz Kafka, The Trial
Philosophy in the West has been withering on the vine for decades. A combination of Jacques Derrida’s “death of the civilization of the book” and the replacement of that civilization with Guy Debord’s “society of the spectacle” has rendered philosophy outmoded, antique, and frankly too much like hard work for an intellectually undemanding generation. (more…)
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In Greece in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE, the sophists were highly-prized teachers of the art or craft (techne) of rhetoric. (The Greek word techne is the root of our words technique and technology.)
Socrates was widely seen as a sophist, for instance in Aristophanes’ Clouds. To a naïve bystander, Socrates certainly looked like a sophist. Like the sophists, Socrates spent a great deal of time arguing about ideas. Moreover, Socrates was seen arguing with known sophists, including the greatest sophists of them all, Gorgias and Protagoras, as depicted in the Platonic dialogues which bear their names. (more…)
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Every educated person should be familiar with Plato, but higher education today is usually a barrier to understanding the great thinkers of the past. Hence the need for Counter-Currents, which Jonathan Bowden described as an online university of the Right.
In the next five Saturday Counter-Currents Radio livestreams (June 24 and July 1, 8, 15, and 22), Greg Johnson will lecture on Plato’s dialogue Gorgias. The theme of the course is “Might vs. Right.” (more…)
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June 7, 2023 Greg Johnson
Plato’s Phaedo,
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
The following is an excerpt from Greg Johnson’s forthcoming book, The Trial of Socrates, which is available for pre-order at a $5 discount from now until its release on June 30. See here for details.
Socrates’s Flight to the Logoi
Socrates literally calls his second-best method his “second sailing,” which is an allusion to a comment made earlier by Simmias: (more…)