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Category Archives: Philosophy
The Birth of Tragedy
“There is nothing more terrible than a class of barbaric slaves who have learned to regard their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to avenge, not only themselves, but all generations. In the face of such threatening storms, who … Continue reading
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The Science Delusion
From a review of Curtis White’s The Science Delusion is this nice summary of absurdism endemic to scientism: The problem, obviously, isn’t science; it’s the arrogance with which many scientists, and popularizers of science, dismiss the value of other ways … Continue reading
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A Bell is Not a Bell
In the Oscar Hammerstein II – Out Of My Dreams documentary on PBS (see my previous post) is reference to a beautiful verse from the song “Sixteen Going On Seventeen – Reprise” from The Sound of Music. (This verse is … Continue reading
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Wieseltier on Scientism
Many of my forays into philosophy on this blog will involve pointing out the dangerous dogmatism of scientism. Here’s Leon Wieseltier on the subject: Our glittering age of technologism is also a glittering age of scientism. Scientism is not the … Continue reading
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Art and the Ineffable
Can great art, tapping into the deepest recesses of our collective psyches, serve up objective correlatives of the ‘ineffable’? The so-called ineffability question in philosophical aesthetics – can art convey or communicate ‘knowledge’ of a different kind than scientific (or … Continue reading
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Kierkegaard at 200
Upon the great philosopher’s 200th birthday, Julian Baggini has a very good synopsis of Kierkegaard, a philosopher whose work I think was way ahead of its time. Kierkegaard got to the root of the existentialist dilemma arguably before anyone else. … Continue reading
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Marx vs. Nietzsche
Many moons ago, in college, a good decade before I made a conservative turn, I was regularly exposed to both Marxism and postmodernism (e.g., Foucault, Derrida). Both sets of ideas excited me at the time. As idea-systems, they were both… … Continue reading
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Dark Enlightenment
In “Visualizing Neoreaction“, the Habitable Worlds blog has an interesting post on the growing smorgasbord of ‘neoreactionary movement’ (of which the blog of yours truly would be defined as). Hat tip: HBD Chick. It’s a sign of maturity that the … Continue reading
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Burke vs. Libertarianism
Given the larger-scale battles conservatism as a whole faces (We few, we happy few, we band of brothers… against the whole of 21st century culture), it’s nonetheless good to get familiar with some of the philosophical differences between various strands … Continue reading
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