Category: Positivism
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Sophia, the Wisdom of God
He revived in our Christian consciousness ancient and eternal truths, but under new names: the fundamental truth about collective essence of the World Soul and the consummate truth about the life of the dead.
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Paganism 2.0
I see and approve what is better, but follow what is worse. ~ Ovid, Metamorphoses
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Solidarity and Continuity
Auguste Comte was a 19th century French philosopher, although seldom read today. He called his philosophical system Positivism and he is rightly regarded as the founder of sociology as a science. Dismayed by the French revolution and its aftermaths, Comte was motivated to put the civilization of the Middle Ages on a foundation secured by…
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Remembering the Dead
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 dead, of those who had…
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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.
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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…
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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 society is even capable of…
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Occult Facts
Existence is only real when it is conscious to somebody. ~ Carl Jung Suppose you observe two men, man A is aiming a gun at the man B whose arms are raised. As a strict positivist, who only accepts the evidence of the senses, that is the limit of what you can say about this…
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Scientific Clarity and Assurance
What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science.