Tag Archives: ethics

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, Greg Johnson, irony, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, sophistry, the daimonion, The Trial of Socrates, Xenophon | 4 Responses

The Aryan Ethos:
Loyalty to One’s Own Nature

Julius Evola

2,384 words

Today, more than ever, one must understand that social problems, in their essence, are rooted in problems of ethics and world-view. Anyone who thinks that social problems can be solved through purely technical means, is like a doctor who only wants to treat the patent symptoms of a disease, rather than examining and treating its deep causes. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, class, guilds, individualism, Julius Evola, loyalty, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, professions, self-actualization, self-construction, translations | Comments closed

Evola’s Nietzschean Ethics:
A Code of Conduct for the Higher Man in Kali Yuga

Collin Cleary

5,808 words

The subtitle of the English translation of Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger (Cavalcare la Tigre) promises that it offers “A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul.”[1] As a result, one comes to the work with the expectation that it will constitute a kind of “self-help book” for Traditionalists, for “men against time.” Read more …

Published: April 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Friedrich Nietzsche, happiness, Immanuel Kant, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Ride the Tiger, the superman, Traditionalism | Comments closed

One’s Nation as the Highest Truth:
The German Ethical Revolution, 1800–1945

Asklepios

Fichte addressing the German people on the importance of nationalism.

5,045 words

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live. . .”

–Deuteronomy 30:19

Published: April 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Asklepios, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich von Bernhardi, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, North American New Right, originals, the nation, war | Comments closed

What Socrates Knew
Plato’s Alcibiades I

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure, 1791

11,025 words

Author’s Note:

What follows is a transcription by V.S. of a lecture on Plato’s Alcibiades I. The translation of Alcibiades I referenced is by Carnes Lord in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987). To listen to the audio in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target as.”

Today, we’re going to be looking at Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades I. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alcibiades, Alcibiades I, articles, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, self-knowledge, Socrates, Xenophon | Comments closed

What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

7,345 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of that lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Comments closed

Navidad, la belleza de la vida

431 words

Traducción por Francisco Albanese; English version here

Nos acercamos a la Navidad (otro nombre para el solsticio de invierno). Asociada al árbol de hojas perennes, la Navidad ha sido celebrada en los países europeos desde tiempos inmemoriales como la gran fiesta que presagia el renacimiento de la naturaleza y la vida después del reposo del invierno. Uno no puede dejar de pensar que Europa, también, algún día emergerá de su actual Dormición, incluso si es más larga que el ciclo de la naturaleza. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Comments closed

Christmas:
Beauty in Life

398 words

Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Comments closed

What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

8,733 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the first half of the lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

The “Thirty Socratic Theses” are: Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates, transference, What Socrates Knew | Comments closed

Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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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.) Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism, truth | Comments closed

What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 2 of 2

Reyer van Blommendael, Xantippe Dousing Socrates, c. 1665

6,643 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Author’s Note:

On August 24th, 1999 I began a lecture course called “What Socrates Knew” with a lecture called “Thirty Socratic Theses.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of the lecture by V.S. The thirty theses are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, freedom, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates, What Socrates Knew | Comments closed

What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 1 of 2

Socrates and Xanthippe

7,763 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 24th, 1999 I began a lecture course called “What Socrates Knew” with a lecture called “Thirty Socratic Theses.” What follows is a transcription of the first half of the lecture by V.S. The thirty theses are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 15, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, happiness, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, wisdom | Comments closed

Christmas: Beauty in Life

395 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Published: December 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Comments closed

Temný rytíř

Trevor Lynch

3,028 words

English original here

Ve své recenzi Nolanova Batman začíná (Batman Begins, 2005) jsem napsal, že film dosahuje dramatického konfliktu navýšením sázek až do krajnosti: zničení moderního světa (ztělesněného Gotham City) tradicionalistickou Ligou stínů vs. jeho zachování a „progresivní“ vylepšení, o něž usiluje Batman.

The Decay of Words, Part 2:
Work & Leisure

Julius Evola

2,201 words

Part 2 of 3

Trans. G. A. Malvicini from L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)

10. Labor. Regarding changes in the value attached to words, changes that clearly indicate a radical change in world view, the most typical case is perhaps that of the term labor. In Latin, this word had a mainly negative meaning. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, baseness, contemplation, education, Julius Evola, language, Latin, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, nobility, North American New Right, originals, philology, philosophy, translations, vice, virtue, work | Comments closed

The Decay of Words, Part 1:
Virtue & Vice

Julius Evola

1,767 words

Part 1 of 3

Trans. G. A. Malvicini from L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)

One of the signs of the fact that the course of history has, outside of the purely material plane, been anything but one of progress, is the poverty of modern languages compared to many ancient languages. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, baseness, Julius Evola, language, Latin, nobility, North American New Right, originals, philology, philosophy, translations, vice, virtue | Comments closed

Vydejte se, zachraňte svět

1,079 words

English original here

Někdy v roce 2003 jsem se cítil velice unavený a uvažoval, že nechám práce na jednom projektu spojeném s hnutím a trochu se vyspím. Bylo půl třetí ráno a moc jsem toho poslední dobou nenaspal. Pak mě ale napadlo: „Na co se vlastně šetříš?“ Potřeboval jsem spánek, abych si zachoval svou krásu? Všechno, co ušetříme, stejně musíme vydat, jelikož smrt nikomu nic nenechává. Tím, že se budeme šetřit, svět nezachráníme – toho dosáhneme jedině tím, že se vydáme. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, aristocracy, articles, Greg Johnson, in Czech, in translation, morality, North American New Right, parasitism, philosophy, Plato, reprints, the bourgeoisie, thumos, warrior ethics, white dispossession | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 149
The Pursuit of Happiness
Pleasure, Part 2: Epicureanism

40:21 / 156 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 29, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, philosophy, Pleasure, podcasts, The Pursuit of Happiness | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 148
The Pursuit of Happiness
Pleasure, Part 1: Plato’s Gorgias

53:16 / 149 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 26, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, Counter-Currents Radio, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, philosophy, Plato, Pleasure, podcasts, Socrates, The Pursuit of Happiness | Comments closed

Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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

2,587 words

Published: December 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism, truth | Comments closed

Christmas: Beauty in Life

395 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Published: December 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Comments closed

Prendre parti pour notre propre camp

Michael Polignano

1,598 words

English original here

Nous pouvons tous avoir des partialités naturelles : pour la famille contre des non-parents, les amis contre les inconnus, les compatriotes contre les étrangers, les frères de race contre les membres d’autres races. Read more …

Published: November 27, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, ethnocentrism, in French, in translation, Michael Polignano, multiculturalism, North American New Right, philosophy, white dispossession, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

A Brief Theology of Egoism

Ann Sterzinger

1,147 words

Trevor Blake
Confessions of a Failed Egoist, and Other Essays
Baltimore: Underworld Amusements, 2014

Fred Wilkes
The Gospel According to Malfew Seklew: and Other Writings By and About Sirfessor Wilkesbarre
Ed. Kevin I. Slaughter, Introduction by Trevor Blake
Baltimore: Underworld Amusements, 2014 Read more …

Published: October 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, atheism, book reviews, Confessions of a Failed Egoist, egoism, Fred Wilkes, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Gospel According to Malfew Seklew, Trevor Blake | Comments closed

Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves

Tonio Kröger

3,770 words

I. (Minor Spoilers)

The opening chapters of Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves introduce the viewer to Bess and her little, pastoral Scottish community, which is pervaded and dominated by a highly austere Calvinist Christianity. In the very first scene, which features the elders of the church questioning Bess about her betrothed, Jan, a stranger to the community, the atmosphere is immediately stifling and rigorous. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Breaking the Waves, Christianity, forgiveness, Golden Hearts Trilogy, Lars von Trier, love, morality, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, sexuality, Tonio Kröger | Comments closed

Czynnik moralny

4,314 words

English original here and here

„Człowiek n i e dąży do szczęścia; czyni to tylko Anglik.”—Nietzsche

Najważniejsze pytania metapolityki dotyczą tożsamości, moralności oraz możliwości.

Jak dowodzi Carl Schmitt, polityczność oparta jest na rozróżnieniu pomiędzy „my” a „oni”. Pytanie dotyczące tożsamości brzmi: Kim jesteśmy? Read more …

Published: August 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cynicism, cynicism. Greg Johnson, Greg Johnson, in Polish, in translation, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, the bourgeoisie, thumos | Comments closed

Znaczenie filozofii dla zmiany politycznej

3,128 words

English original here

Tytuł tego eseju jest poniekąd mylący, ponieważ zamierzam dowodzić, że filozofia ma znaczenie dla wszelkiej ludzkiej aktywności, nie tylko dla polityki. Filozofia jest nie tylko metapolityczna, ale „meta-wszystko”[1]. Ale wiem, że moi czytelnicy zainteresowani są zmianą polityczną, zatem był to mój wybieg, aby zachęcić Was do lektury. Co więcej, twierdzę, że filozofia nie jedynie znacząca dla życia, ale jest sprawą najwyższej wagi. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Greg Johnson, in Polish, in translation, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, Socrates, Stoicism, wisdom | Comments closed

Teoria i praktyka

866 words

English original here

Aby zrealizować swoje cele polityczne, Północnoamerykańska Nowa Prawica musi zrozumieć właściwe relacje pomiędzy teorią a zmianą społeczną, metapolitkyą a polityką, teorią a praktyką. Musimy uniknąć dryfowania w kierunku bezczynnego intelektualizmu albo bezmyślnego – a zatem najprawdopodobniej przynoszącego skutki odwrotne od zamierzonych – aktywizmu.

El Factor Moral, Parte 2

2,609 words

Traducción por A. Garrido. Enlace original aquí

Parte 2 de 2 (parte 1 aquí)

“Esta no es ninguna fiesta.
Esta no es ninguna disco.
Esto no es un engaño a todo”
– Talking Heads, “La vida en tiempos de guerra”.

Alternativas al Hombre Burgués

Afortunadamente, no todos los hombres son del tipo burgués. Read more …

Published: May 31, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cynicism, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, the bourgeoisie, thumos | Comments closed

El Factor Moral, Parte 1