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Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ancient Greece, articles, Beyond Human Rights, book reviews, cosmopolitanism, David Gress, G. W. F. Hegel, John Law, nationalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints, republicanism, rights, Seyla Benhabib, universalism | Comments closed

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Interview with Gilad Atzmon

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60:12 / 119 words

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Published: April 27, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, David Duke, Gilad Atzmon, interviews, Israel, jazz, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Otto Weininger, Palestine, philosophy, philosophy of history, podcasts, the Jewish question, Zionism | Comments closed

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Oswald Spengler & the Faustian Soul of the West, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

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Part 2 of 2

Kant and the “Unsocial Sociability” of Humans

I ended Part 1 asking who are these characters with proud aristocratic souls Read more …

Published: January 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agonism, aristocracy, articles, European identity, Faustian man, Friedrich Nietzsche, Indo-Europeans, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Männerbund, thumos, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Mein Kodex

Jef Costello

Peter Paul Rubens, "The Four Philosophers," with a bust of Seneca, 1611-1612

Peter Paul Rubens: „Die vier Philosophen“, mit einer Büste von Seneca, 1611-1612

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Übersetzt von Deep Roots

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Vor ein paar Jahren entschied ich, daß ich einen Kodex brauchte, um danach zu leben: eine Reihe von Prinzipien, die mein Leben leiten. Nun, es ist nicht so, als hätte ich nicht bereits einige Prinzipien entdeckt, die mir als richtig erschienen; es war nicht so, als ob ich im Blindflug unterwegs gewesen wäre, ohne irgendwelche Überzeugungen. Aber ich hatte mich nie hingesetzt und darüber nachgedacht, woraus genau mein „Kodex“ bestand, und das alles zu Papier gebracht. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Baruch Spinoza, chivalry, Doc Savage, duty, Epictetus, ethics, G. I. Gurdjieff, happiness, in German, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, living well, morality, narcissism, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Stoicism | Comments closed

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Martha Nussbaum:
Premier Citizen of the World

Ricardo Duchesne

Ecstatic with herself

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The world of academia is full of hyper-inflated academics with multiple titles, prizes, honors, publications, grants and “original” ideas. Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, is a typical case in point; Read more …

Published: November 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Amartya Sen, anger, Aristotle, articles, biological race differences, cosmopolitanism, Marcus Aurelius, Martha Nussbaum, multiculturalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political correctness, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Seneca, Stoicism, the Jewish question, WASPs, white dispossession, white guilt | Comments closed

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My Code

Jef Costello

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Four Philosophers,” with a bust of Seneca, 1611-1612

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German translation here

A few years ago, I decided I needed a code to live by: a set of principles to guide my life. Now, it’s not as if I hadn’t already discovered some principles that seemed right to me; it wasn’t as if I was flying blind, without any convictions. But I had never sat down and reflected on exactly what my “code” consisted in, and put it all on paper. So, I decided one day to do just that.

Published: January 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Baruch Spinoza, chivalry, Doc Savage, duty, Epictetus, ethics, G. I. Gurdjieff, happiness, J. G. Fichte, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, living well, morality, narcissism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Stoicism | Comments closed

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The Pursuit of Happiness
An Overview of the Course

Greg Johnson

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

Published: January 15, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Buddhism, Callicles, Confucius, detachment, duty, Epictetus, Epicurus, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, harmony, hedonism, Lao Tzu, living well, Michel de Montaigne, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Stoicism, Taoism, The Pursuit of Happiness, William James | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Idealism

Derek Hawthorne

3,603 words

The Nature of Mind

“We are now in the last stages of idealism,” Lawrence writes in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, and he goes on to claim that psychoanalysis is conducting us through those last stages.[1] Furthermore, he also tells us that idealism is “the one besetting sin of the human race.”[2] What does Lawrence mean by idealism, and why is he so opposed to it?

Published: August 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, idealism, intellectualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, vitalism | Comments closed

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“All or Nothing”:
The Prisoner & Ibsen’s Brand

Collin Cleary

Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner

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A number of years ago I wrote an essay offering an interpretation of the cult TV series The Prisoner (anthologized in Summoning the Gods, published by Counter-Currents).

Published: July 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brand, Christianity, Collin Cleary, drama, ethics, fanaticism, Henrik Ibsen, individualism, morality, North American New Right, originals, Patrick McGoohan, Protestantism, religion, The Prisoner, TV reviews | Comments closed

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Fichte & the German Nation

William Pierce

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762–1814

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of those rare men who are both thinkers and heroes. His challenging Wissenschaftslehre (“doctrine of science”) remains one of the most ambitious attempts to encompass the world and its meaning in a speculative philosophical system. In his elaboration of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of ethical idealism, Fichte achieved a compelling synthesis of the complementary values of freedom and duty. Read more …