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Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…

  • What is Fascism – Based on Richard Wolin’s “The Seduction of Unreason” | Dr. Taimur Rahman

    What is Fascism – Based on Richard Wolin’s “The Seduction of Unreason” | Dr. Taimur Rahman

    An in-depth lecture at Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS) based on Richard Wolin’s book “The Seduction of Unreason” on how counter-enlightenment ideas (read Mario Palmieri on the Rebirth of Classical Studies and Lore: Critiques the Renaissance, Individualism, and Speaks of the Ancient Sages and The Romaness of Fascism: Palmieri and Mussolini on Mazzini, Dante,…

  • Friedrich Nietzsche on the Overman • Narrated by Peter Sjöstedt-H)

    Friedrich Nietzsche on the Overman • Narrated by Peter Sjöstedt-H)

    Peter Sjöstedt-H reads Nietzsche’s own words on the concept of the Overman/Superman (Übermensch) Create a Man beyond this one. There is a true need for a new aim, a higher type of Man, to better preserve itself. This kind of society is not capable of bringing it about. The Man it produces has reached its…