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Monthly Archives: April 2008
A Story of Love and Death
In Memoriam to my mother and father Update: Three years ago today, my father entertained family guests and had a stroke an hour later. Two months later, both my mother and my father had died, one from disease, the other from loneliness. This is the story of their last days … Continue reading
Intelligent Design and Realism
A couple of years ago I participated in an on-line discussion on the web site of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID) . The host was a philosopher (Del Ratzsch) who had just published a good book on Intelligent Design from a philosophical, not scientific, perspective. I … Continue reading
Evola’s Advice to the Pope
On the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the USA, it may be appropriate to quote Evola on the situation of the Church just after Vatican II and on its prospects to become an authentic force of Tradition. This is from the conclusion of the chapter “Esoteric … Continue reading
The Real Objection to Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design, in the broadest sense of the term, is the methodological principle that causation may be the result of the intention of an intelligent agent. At first glance it is difficult to understand why that should be controversial. In everyday life, we use that principle all the time. For … Continue reading
Worldviews
Metaphysical mutations — that is to say radical, global transformations in the values to which the majority subscribe — are rare in the history of humanity. The rise of Christianity might be cited as an example. Once a metaphysical mutation has arisen, it tends to move inexorably toward its logical … Continue reading
Montesquieu on the betrayal of truth
Partisans are under the sway of thymos, which is the blind will to “dominate”; philosophers are dominated by nous, the pursuit of wisdom. Continue reading
Maurras and Dumezil
Dumezil is therefore a son of Anthinéa, a fortiori when he asserts that the results of his research have an interest “more aesthetic than scientific” that is, far from materialism. Continue reading