Note: This translation of Charles Maurras’ “All Soul’s Day” originally appeared in Taki’s Magazine. On All Soul’s Day, we honor the memory of the dead, especially those closest to us in our hearts and mind. Charles Maurras refers to this as “the universal cult of the dead, of all the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Philosophy
The Human Being
Plants and animals, since they have a determinative nature, have only to actualize that nature in the course of their lives. With man, it is different, since the human is a combination of being and non-being. Though a man starts with a certain nature, his potential is much vaster. So … Continue reading
Nuclear Energy, Evolution, the Unconscious
When science changed its methodology from the description of phenomena, to the search for occult causes, it then made its three most significant discoveries of modern times. These are Nuclear Energy in Physics, Evolution in Biology, and the Unconscious in Psychology. Continue reading
Social Facts and Group Control
Far from exhausting itself in a naturalism — as today only the ignorance or the tendentious falsification of some people are able to present it — beyond knowing the ideals of virile overcoming and of absolute liberation, in the pagan conception, the world was a living body, suffused with secret, divine and demonic forces, with meanings and with symbols. Continue reading
A Piece of Lava on the Moon
It would be easier to convince most people to consider themselves a piece of lava on the moon than a self. Those who are not in agreement with their self in this sense will not understand any comprehensive philosophy nor to they need to. Nature, whose machine they are, will … Continue reading
Law of Social Dynamics
Auguste Comte proposed the Law of Social Dynamics where humanity passes necessarily through the three states of theological affirmation, metaphysical critique, and positive science or religion. In point of fact, from a historical perspective, not every society has passed through those three stages; furthermore, Comte has not demonstrated that every … Continue reading
Précis
What follows is a brief précis of the fundamental point of view of the Gornahoor project. Epistomology We hold to three degrees of knowledge: Doxa (sensus, opinion, sensual knowledge). Direct, intuitive knowledge through the senses. I taste the sweetness and moistness of a mango. Dianoia (ratio, rational knowledge). Indirect knowledge, … Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Law
Thus one arrives at the ideal of law by introspection, at the idea of law by reasonable evaluation of experiences, and at the concept of law by knowing the facts of positive law. Continue reading
The School of Athens
Platonism and Aristotelianism In the first millennium of Christianity thinking, Platonism was the predominant philosophical stream that nourished its spiritual practice and theology. In the West the Cathedral of Chartres was the centre for Platonic thinking under the Cistercians, a role it played up until around the year 1200. At … Continue reading
The True Sage
The true sage is no longer a simple hermit or a wandering monk, who has renounced life and is mildly preaching the same renunciation to others; he is one who boldly denounces the wrong and irrational things of life. Continue reading