Neoreactionary thinking goes back to the foundations of Western philosophy.. Plato and Aristotle saw democracies in action, and they both argued that human nature finds its fulfillment in small, organic communities of related people where the natural aristocracy that emerges gets to run things, instead of the vulgarians who lacked the personal excellence for the task. This makes Neoreaction a revival of a formerly mainstream view which has fallen out of fashion since the 18th Century because of contingent historical setbacks, not because it got the worse in a fair debate.
So what do intellectual advocates of democracy, egalitarianism, cosmopolitanism, etc. want to do? Throw Plato’s and Aristotle’s writings out of the Western Canon?
So what do intellectual advocates of democracy, egalitarianism, cosmopolitanism, etc. want to do? Throw Plato’s and Aristotle’s writings out of the Western Canon?
That looks like a strawman to me. Could you link to anyone who wants to throw Plato out of the Western canon because he didn’t favor democracy?
(There are other valid arguments against the Western canon)
Neoreactionary thinking goes back to the foundations of Western philosophy.. Plato and Aristotle saw democracies in action, and they both argued that human nature finds its fulfillment in small, organic communities of related people where the natural aristocracy that emerges gets to run things, instead of the vulgarians who lacked the personal excellence for the task. This makes Neoreaction a revival of a formerly mainstream view which has fallen out of fashion since the 18th Century because of contingent historical setbacks, not because it got the worse in a fair debate.
So what do intellectual advocates of democracy, egalitarianism, cosmopolitanism, etc. want to do? Throw Plato’s and Aristotle’s writings out of the Western Canon?
That looks like a strawman to me. Could you link to anyone who wants to throw Plato out of the Western canon because he didn’t favor democracy? (There are other valid arguments against the Western canon)
And better reasons than anti-democracy to throw Plato out.