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Evola, Magical Idealism, & Western Metaphysics, Part Three
3,073 words Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) 5. Critique of Magical Idealism In this concluding section, I will discuss three major difficulties with magical idealism: Evola...
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Evola, Magical Idealism, & Western Metaphysics, Part Four
6,502 words Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) 5. Critique of Magical Idealism (Continued) (b) How strong is Evola’s case for idealism? I noted earlier that Evola sums up his idealism using...
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In Defense of Superstition
7,156 words 1. Introduction The thesis of this essay is that it is wise to be superstitious. To put it differently, I will argue that my readers should be superstitious — or that they should embrace...
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What Is Philosophy?
7,590 words 1. Knowledge of the Right Use of All Things To explain what philosophy is, we always have to go back to the beginning. Pythagoras (ca. 570-495 BC) is said to have been confronted by Leon,...
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A Lesson from Mr. Gurdjieff: The Briefest of Introductions to “the Work”
G. I. Gurdjieff 1,981 words As I write this, I am spending Yuletide in Salzburg. A day ago, I took the train to Vienna and stopped at the Café Mozart for lunch. There, as luck would have it, I ran into...
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Remembering G. I. Gurdjieff: January 13, ca. 1866–October 29, 1949
Mr. Gurdjieff 1,577 words We are not exactly sure when George Ivanovich Gurdjieff arrived on this Earth, but it was probably January 13, around 1866. He was born in Alexandropol, then part of the...
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Edred Thorsson a jeho kniha Historie Runové gildy
2.563 slov English original here Edred Thorsson History of the Rune-Gild: The Reawakening of the Gild 1980-2018, North Augusta, S.C.: Arcana Europa, 2019. Pozn. překladatele: Kniha má, snad trochu...
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Forgotten Roots of the Left: Fichte’s Moral & Political Philosophy, Part I
J. G. Fichte 6,359 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) 1. “I am what I freely make myself to be” This is the sixth essay I have written for Counter-Currents on the German idealist J. G. Fichte (see the...
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Forgotten Roots of the Left: Fichte’s Moral & Political Philosophy, Part II
A French Jacobin 3,782 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) 1. Introduction: Transcendental Idealism as Political Radicalism In part one of this essay, I covered J. G. Fichte’s moral...
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Forgotten Roots of the Left: Fichte’s Moral & Political Philosophy, Part III
6,341 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) 1. Fichte on the Nature of the State We began to explore Fichte’s political philosophy in the last installment, as expounded primarily in his 1796...
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Why The Prisoner Still Matters
5,740 words Having already published two extensive articles on The Prisoner (see here and here), I didn’t expect to ever write about the series again. But times have changed, and so has The Prisoner....
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In Defense of Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of F. W. J....
A daguerreotype of F. W. J. Schelling from 1848, the first known photograph of a philosopher. 4,839 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) 1. Introduction: A Philosophical Rebel This essay is a continuation...
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In Defense of Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of F. W. J....
Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler 5,320 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this essay I introduced readers to Schelling, who is one of the first philosophers to react...
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Collin Cleary Interviewed on Richard Wagner
You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here. 63 words / 1:07:40 Longtime Counter-Currents contributor Collin Cleary, author of Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition,...
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Nietzsche and the Psychology of the Left, Part One
3,604 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) 1. Introduction: An Extremely Impious Book Perplexed, as so many of us are, by the utter mindlessness and malevolence of today’s Leftists, I decided several years...
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Nietzsche and the Psychology of the Left, Part Two
4,386 words 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...
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Remembering G. I. Gurdjieff
Mr. Gurdjieff 1,577 words We are not exactly sure when George Ivanovich Gurdjieff arrived on this Earth, but it was probably January 13, around 1866. He was born in Alexandropol, then part of the...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil – part 1
3,032 words Part 1 of 15 Introduction: The Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism In 1936, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture course on F. W. J. Schelling’s 1809 treatise Philosophical...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
3,049 words Part 2 of 15 (Read Part 1 here) Freedom, System, and Pantheism Schelling begins the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (henceforth referred to as the...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
3,695 words A young Martin Heidegger. Part 3 of 15 (Part 1 here. Part 2 here.) Self-Affirmation as Being We have seen that Schelling claims “there is no being other than will. Will is primal being...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
3,805 words Part 4 of 15 The Internal Differentiation of God Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
3,729 words Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler. 1885. Part 5 of 15 (Part 1 begins here.) Unintelligibility is the Core of What is Real It is tempting to think of Schelling’s ground as a...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil: Part 6
4,125 words A young Martin Heidegger. Part 6 of 15 (Part 1 begins here) Creation is the Transfiguration of the Dark Love, according to Schelling, is a principle of wholeness or harmony, drawing all...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil: Part 7
4,280 words Part 7 of 15 (Part 1 begins here. Part 6 here.) The Deepest Abyss and the Loftiest Sky We are now on the threshold of Schelling’s account of the nature of evil. He argues that in God the...
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil: Part 8
3,856 words Myra Hindley Part 8 of 15 (Part 1 here. Part 7 here.) The Spiritedness of Evil Schelling writes, “As disease is admittedly nothing having essential being [nichts Wesenhaftes], really only...
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