Comments on: Quote notes (#10)

By: Thos Ward

Thos Ward — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 03:42:40 +0000

Thank you for this. I wouldn’t have found it otherwise and it is indeed quite interesting. Voegelin makes for a good neighbor.

By: Artxell Knaphni

Artxell Knaphni — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:52:36 +0000

I haven’t read it all, but I can see that the theme of ‘wisdom’ (as applied to social governance is appealed to by ‘NeoReaction’. What constitutes such ‘wisdom’ is something you’ve all been working through. It’s not an easy task. The question of whether ‘modernity’ changes things is another consideration – are classical modes of ‘wisdom’ no longer sufficient? But what else do we have? And do we even have those?

The author’s positioning of ‘deconstruction’ as an example of “a baroque anti-epistemology” is interesting. Especially so, since Buddhist epistemology is more radical than Derrida and Buddhist apoha linguistics is differential, like Saussure’s.
In a way, though, the author could say that that confirms his thesis: Buddha, after all, was a Kshaitriya. But it should be kept in mind that the earlier Kshaitriya rebellion, exemplified by the Upanisads, occured because the Brahmins no longer knew the meanings of the words they intoned: hence, the going into the forest and thinking things through, oneself, of the Upanisads.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:13:24 +0000

It’s probably not usefully described as ‘neoreaction’, but it’s a neighbor, and — as you say — “very interesting”.

By: Artxell Knaphni

Artxell Knaphni — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:53:13 +0000

Thank you very much, admin, for “René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order”. Very interesting.

By: Artxell Knaphni

Artxell Knaphni — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:26:25 +0000

“All of this results from any morality that founds itself on its own selective transgression. The very selection of its location of inapplicability, becomes the fulcrum around which it unravels, the logic of exclusion and dissolution, essentially being one and the same.”

(from an earlier comment , here – http://www.xenosystems.net/hitlers-legacy/#comment-7008)

Haven’t forgotten the ‘Science’ post, have unfinished response, but busy with organising)