Category: Philosophy, Page 28
Church, Papacy, Schism: The Bizarre Metaphysics of the Papacy – Jay Dyer
Jay Dyer - Mar 10th 2021 3:46pm EST Today we will look at a classic work that critiques the papacy from a different vantage point. In an atmosphere of debate that is dominated by throwing outdated, debunked and forgery-based arguments back and forth: Dr. Sherrard’s book is an excellent philosophical critique of the papacy, or more properly philosophical theology. Although we […]
Richard Dawkins Vs. William Lane Craig Debate Review – Jay Dyer
Jay Dyer - Mar 10th 2021 3:46pm EST The next best debate to review we haven’t covered yet includes the infamous Richard Dawkins – who has been curiously overlooked in our series. Time to rectify that with this popular debate from a decade ago, which also includes cameos of other atheists and so called apologists in what looks like a UFC version […]
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2020 5:48pm EDTModernism arrived in the United States in the 1910s. The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s. If we were to go back to the 1920s, we would find that H.L. Mencken was unquestionably the single most important figure in defining the culture war. Who inspired H.L. Mencken’s culture war? The following […]
The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche
Occidental Dissent - Sep 28th 2020 10:54am EDTI’ve been getting some pushback against my argument that Friedrich Nietzsche had a major formative impact on the people who created modern American liberalism. The hallmark of modern liberalism is social liberalism or cultural liberalism. It is left-libertarian. It is driven by the transgressive impulse to tear down cultural norms. It is an aesthetic form […]
Is Nietzsche The Answer?
Occidental Dissent - Sep 14th 2020 1:27am EDTThis is an excellent video. Nietzsche is not the answer to our problems. I don’t say this as a Christian or as someone who dislikes Nietzsche. When I was in college, I read Nietzsche and was deeply influenced by him. I’m still a Nietzschean in the sense that I have always been interested in how […]
Nietzsche’s Insanity, Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Sep 8th 2020 4:44pm EDT
Peter Hitchens – Britain Is Dead! How The Government’s Response To Coronavirus Is Disproportionate To The Threat
London Real - Sep 4th 2020 11:20am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Peter Hitchens</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> Britain Is Dead! How The Government’s Response To Coronavirus Is Disproportionate To The Threat appeared first on London Real.
Heralds of Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2020 4:26pm EDTIn this article, we are going to look at the proto-Moderns who lived in the late 19th century and whose work had an enormous impact on shaping the intellectual landscape and culture of the 20th century. The proto-Moderns were not necessarily Modernists themselves, but they were the forerunners or precursors of it. They pushed Western […]
The Revolt of the Elites
Occidental Dissent - Aug 30th 2020 10:27pm EDTWhy do our cosmopolitan elites hate their own people? There are two popular theories in our circles that explain this phenomena. The first theory holds that it is the result of a Jewish culture of critique. The second theory holds that liberalism has degenerated our culture. While there is a great deal of truth to […]
Enemies of Enlightenment
Occidental Dissent - Aug 9th 2020 9:39am EDTI’m continuing to enjoy these lectures. In the last article, I speculated about how at the end of every great age of Western history two different types of radicals emerge. There are the status quo fanatics who combust the current social order by taking it to a ludicrous extreme and there are reactive creative deviants. […]
Isaiah Berlin: Romanticism – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 7:17pm EDTNow watching. Note: Isaiah Berlin didn’t like Romanticism.
The Reactionary Revolution
Occidental Dissent - Jul 28th 2020 6:43pm EDTDamon Linker thinks conservatives are drifting toward authoritarianism. The Week: “The conservative intelligentsia keeps returning to authoritarianism.Back in June of last year, I wrote a column about how the intellectual right was talking itself into tearing down American democracy. The occasion was a debate between David French, a social-conservative defender of the right to religious freedom […]
Sam Harris – Making Sense: How Successful Conversations Prevent The Total Breakdown Of Civilisation
London Real - Jul 21st 2020 6:55am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Sam Harris</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> Making Sense: How Successful Conversations Prevent The Total Breakdown Of Civilisation appeared first on London Real.
Representative Dan Crenshaw – From Navy SEAL To US Congress: How America Shows Resilience In The Era Of Outrage
London Real - Jul 17th 2020 8:20am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Representative Dan Crenshaw</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> From Navy SEAL To US Congress: How America Shows Resilience In The Era Of Outrage appeared first on London Real.
Peter Hitchens – Britain Is Dead! How The Government’s Response To Coronavirus Is Disproportionate To The Threat
London Real - Jul 16th 2020 11:20am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Peter Hitchens</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> Britain Is Dead! How The Government’s Response To Coronavirus Is Disproportionate To The Threat appeared first on London Real.
The Tory Tradition
Occidental Dissent - Jul 14th 2020 9:02pm EDTI’ve long hated the word “conservative.” I have never identified with mainstream conservatism in the United States. More recently, I have started using the term “conservative liberal” to describe these people in order to better contrast them with my own worldview. I’m a natural conservative but not in the same sense as those people. I […]
Patrick Deneen: Liberalism Has Failed
Occidental Dissent - Jul 11th 2020 9:41pm EDTEditor’s Note: Eventually, the woke mob will topple the Statue of Liberty for being offensive after blowing up Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument. Yes, I have healthy Old English Tory sympathies which used to be present in the Old South, being brought here by way of Colonial Virginia, Barbados, Colonial South Carolina, etc. pic.twitter.com/uJyiNUehwc— […]
James Lindsay – Exposing Social Justice Warriors: How Wokeness Is Radicalising & Destroying The World
London Real - Jul 10th 2020 6:09am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>James Lindsay</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> Exposing Social Justice Warriors: How Wokeness Is Radicalising & Destroying The World appeared first on London Real.
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Conservative Principle
Occidental Dissent - Jul 8th 2020 11:38pm EDTThe following excerpt comes from George Fitzhugh’s essay “The Conservative Principle; or, Social Evils and Their Remedies” which appeared in the April 1857 edition of DeBow’s Review. “Society requires “reversed action.” All its chords are unstrung; they must be screwed up to greater tensity. Visionary schismatics and speculative philosophers seized upon the reformation, and have […]
Response to Thomas Main
Occidental Dissent - Jul 8th 2020 3:17pm EDT
Dennis Prager – America Is Not A Racist Nation: How To Discredit The Systemic Racism Narrative
London Real - Jul 6th 2020 8:44am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Dennis Prager</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> America Is Not A Racist Nation: How To Discredit The Systemic Racism Narrative appeared first on London Real.
Paul Chek – The Journey Of Self Management: How To Achieve Success In Business, Your Body & Life
London Real - Jul 2nd 2020 8:39am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Paul Chek</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> The Journey Of Self Management: How To Achieve Success In Business, Your Body & Life appeared first on London Real.
Tim Kennedy – Hard To Kill: How To Fight For Freedom & Not Become A Slave To The System
London Real - Jun 30th 2020 9:06am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Tim Kennedy</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> Hard To Kill: How To Fight For Freedom & Not Become A Slave To The System appeared first on London Real.
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Declaration of Independence and Virginia Bill of Rights
Occidental Dissent - Jun 29th 2020 9:52am EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. It is another Monday morning. In light of events of the past month, I have my cup of coffee in hand and I am rereading George Fitzhugh’s book Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society who, shall we say, “predicted this.” “An essay on […]
Noam Chomsky – The “Sociopathic Buffoons” Who Mishandled COVID-19: Why The Pandemic Is The Latest Failure Of Neoliberalism
London Real - Jun 29th 2020 8:51am EDTThe post <span class=”episode-title”>Noam Chomsky</span> <span class=”title-dash”>-</span> The “Sociopathic Buffoons” Who Mishandled COVID-19: Why The Pandemic Is The Latest Failure Of Neoliberalism appeared first on London Real.
