Schopenhauer on the Will

Posted on 2009-08-11 by Cologero

Schopenhauer recognized that space, time, and causality are required for any experience and understanding of the natural world, or the world of phenomena. Knowledge, then, consists in understanding the sufficient reason for things, that is, the causal relationships between them. He also recognized, following Kant, that the phenomenal world is … Continue reading →

The Art of Controversy

Posted on 2009-08-09 by Cologero

Controversy is often of mutual advantage, in order to correct one’s thoughts and awaken new views. But in learning and in mental power both disputants must be tolerably equal. Continue reading →

Schopenhauer on Christianity

Posted on 2009-08-06 by Cologero

The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism. Continue reading →

Tenets of Darwinism

Posted on 2009-08-05 by Cologero

Darwinism is based on two fundamental tenets: Survival of the fittest Variation in a population is the result of random genetic mutations The current version is better called neo-Darwinism because Darwin did not know about genes. As Karl Popper pointed out, tenet (1) is really a tautology, not however in … Continue reading →

Fruit Flies and Evolution

Posted on 2009-08-05 by Cologero

Scientists performed the following experiment with two colonies of fruit flies. The first colony was allowed to breed without interference. In the second, the flies were selectively bred to produce a superior colony, that is, it “evolved”. The interesting thing is that when male flies from the evolved colony were … Continue reading →

Tradition and Orthodoxy

Posted on 2009-05-25 by Aeneas

We added T. S. Eliot’s lectures titled After Strange Gods to the library because it is based on the theme of Tradition and Orthodoxy. It is interesting as far as it goes, but we prefer Guenon’s use of the same themes since Guenon develops them in a more thorough and … Continue reading →

Julius Evola and Lourdes

Posted on 2009-03-19 by Cologero

Letter to Fr. Clemente Rebora (May 14, 1949) I thank you sincerely both for the trouble that you took in coming to visit me and for the concern that your offer of a visit to Lourdes shows me. About the visit, I don’t believe that it makes any sense, not … Continue reading →

Hyperborean Field

Posted on 2009-01-29 by Aeneas

To the Hyperborean Field shall thou find the woundrous way Continue reading →

A Parable

Posted on 2009-01-20 by Aeneas

Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end, it would not have reached its goal. A parable. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Intellectual Anarchy

Posted on 2008-12-06 by Cologero

No readers of these lectures should I ever think it necessary to prove that ideas govern and upset the world, or, in other terms, that the whole social mechanism rests, at bottom, on opinions. They are acutely aware that the great political and moral crisis in present-day society is due, … Continue reading →

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Schopenhauer on the Will

The Art of Controversy

Schopenhauer on Christianity

Tenets of Darwinism

Fruit Flies and Evolution

Tradition and Orthodoxy

Julius Evola and Lourdes

Hyperborean Field

A Parable

Intellectual Anarchy