Philosophy and Ideas
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Nietzsche was heroic in his isolation, and he knew it. The scorn in his writing is unmistakable: scorn for others who lacked, in his eyes, the courage to live their separateness. That was his self-mastery, which is to say morality. His was the condescension of the Cynic philosopher, trampling on the pride of property-owners with another kind of pride
October 18, 2020
32 mins
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Kierkegaard identified as one of man's distinguishing characteristics the recognition that he is a creature “before God”. It is such a foundational condition, yet alien to so much contemporary anthropology, that to exclude it means a healthy and balanced consciousness of self is lost
July 27, 2018
16 mins
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In the Stoic catechism there is no such category as 'victimhood'. Rather, there is empowerment by perception -- a cultivation of an invincibility of the will through a mixture of Socratic self-examination and controlling the emotions. Sadly, such sentiments are at odds with a self-indulgent age
April 25, 2018
41 mins
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Politeness might dictate that some topics are best not mentioned for fear of giving offence, but that fails to explain why so many of the left's loudest mouthpieces belong to what the British journalist Nick Cohen calls the 'Kill us, we deserve it' school of cultural self-hatred
March 29, 2016
15 mins
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Much of the intelligentsia has turned against the West's high-cultural tradition that has sought the true, the beautiful and the good. Rather, it has set to assailing our customs, traditions and institutions, with issues -- refugees are the latest -- taken up as cudgels to assault the civic order
September 4, 2015
27 mins
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Too many historians have sought to “normalise” Wilhelmine Germany, ignoring the ideological and cultural pathologies an earlier generation was prepared to confront. Today -- July 28, the 100th anniversary of the Great War's eruption -- that combination of pious duty and conscienceless brutality should be kept very much in mind
July 28, 2014
26 mins
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Illiberal Delusions that Disfigured the Modern World There is much […]
July 1, 2014
31 mins
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As the the conservative philosopher put it, his "unacceptable" views prompted character assassination, three lawsuits, two interrogations, one expulsion, the loss of a university career, contemptuous reviews, Tory suspicion, and the hatred of decent liberals everywhere. And, he swears, it was all worth it
May 30, 2014
26 mins
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Between 1960 and 2010, David Armstrong published 19 books. All […]
March 1, 2014
8 mins
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David Stove wrote this tribute in November 1991 to mark […]
March 1, 2014
7 mins
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Australian materialism didn’t begin with David Armstrong. That honour goes […]
March 1, 2014
17 mins
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Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers Oxford University Press, […]
November 1, 2013
23 mins