Tag: Philosophy

  • Death in June: Unconditional Armistice

    Death in June: Unconditional Armistice

    Hilariously Perfect… “Can I trust a human? Can I trust his soul? Like pigs they link together Like pigs in a sausage roll They all think they’re individuals They all think they’re free Nietzsche said they are supermenDisplayed in a butcher’s shop to meMakes sense within a frameworkOf that Nazarene reality I wish I had…

  • Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right

    Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right

    In the mid-point to the last quarter of 2018, many articles were written across platforms and the internet on how the Alt-Right and Conservatives were misappropriating “the Greek and Latin Classics” to lend credibility to vicious and vindictive white supremacist and Identitarian ideology. I have compiled several to introduce to us a problem. Classics and…

  • Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

    Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

    “It would take Gentile to rebuild Italy” by Marcello Veneziani outlines some important philosophical development from Gentile’s thought in the place of Italian intellectual history. There is some effort by scholars to reinvigorate research about Giovanni Gentile, who was a philosopher in his own right, of Actualism. Like Mazzini’s belief in the progress of history…

  • First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

    First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

    A SCHOOL OF HUMANITY I am highly satisfied with my copy of “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati.” I cannot believe how much error exists regarding this historical order, and so fail to understand the reasons the Bavarian Illuminati Order is demonized, as if it was a ploy…

  • 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…

  • Adepts in America in 1776: William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

    Adepts in America in 1776: William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

    ADEPTS IN AMERICA IN 1776 CONTROVERSY William Q. Judge article in the Theosophist (1883) was his own theories. A respondent puts forth the claims of Adepts in America in 1776 to Helena Blavatsky who explains the European and American Revolution was an independent effort, though not from the men she is associated with. First Published…

  • “I Believe in Philosophy” (script) scene from Hypatia

    “I Believe in Philosophy” (script) scene from Hypatia

    Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here…have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It’s only a matter of time and you know it.Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?…As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors.…

  • Marcel Barsotti: Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887

    Marcel Barsotti: Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887

    Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887 THE ENDURING MYTH OF POPE JOAN “…a female pope who is not set down in the list of popes.”

  • U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of…

  • Quotes on the Scientific Aristocracy and Vanity of Modern Philosophers

    Quotes on the Scientific Aristocracy and Vanity of Modern Philosophers

    QUOTES “France, why do you misunderstand us? European and American Journalists, why don’t you study genuine Theosophy before criticizing it? Because scientific aristocracy is full of vanity and struts on stilts of its own fabrication; because modern philosophy is materialistic to the roots of its hair; because both, in their pride, forget that in order to…

  • Roger Scruton: Moral Relativism Will Be the Death Knell of Western Civilization

    Roger Scruton: Moral Relativism Will Be the Death Knell of Western Civilization

    Moral relativism is considered by conservatives to be one of postmodern society’s greatest threats and may now be a relic of the past. Roger Scruton’s discussion actually gets into what I challenge and discuss about classical liberalism in Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality. There is a moral system already set, not coming into…

  • Sergei Prokofiev: “The Philosophers” | St. Petersburg Philharmonic Choir

    Sergei Prokofiev: “The Philosophers” | St. Petersburg Philharmonic Choir

    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” KARL MARX CANTATA ON THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION, OP. 74: II. PHILOSOPHERS BY ST. PETERSBURG NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA AND ALEXANDER TITOV “The Philosophers” is the second movement of Op. 74 of the Cantata for the 20th…