The primary causal agent is always an idea become person, with a will that pursues determinate ends—a cognizant will that has a program to realize a concrete thought, effective in history. … The few, in so far as they were the conscience and the will of an epoch, were the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Philosophy
Only the spirit exists
It is not only the case that we reject the putative dualism between matter and spirit, we annul the antithesis in the synthesis of the spirit. Only the spirit exists, nothing else, not you, not this room, not the things and the objects that pass before us in the fantastic … Continue reading
Know thyself — why?
Thales the Milesian held that self-knowledge is the beginning of every virtue … The man who knows himself knows that he is a rational, spiritual being, possessing the power of free choice and self-control, and hence religious, social, ethical, and in his spiritual nature, immortal. ~ St. Nectarios, Metropolitan of … Continue reading
Nietzsche on the Will
As a psychologist, Nietzsche looked within and recognized the Will as the “Will to Power”, as the propensity to growth, creativity, expansion, strength, and so on as described in his analysis. Continue reading
The Art of Controversy
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
The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism. Continue reading
Intellectual Anarchy
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
Family Values
If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. ~ 1 Timothy 5:8 Continue reading