Millerman Talks

What did Sartre think of existentialism? How did he object to the criticisms of communists and Christians that existentialists are moody, godless nihilists? Why did Sartre understand his project as optimistic? These are some of the questions covered in this walkthrough of Sartre's 1946 lecture called "Existentialism is a Humanism." This exposition is a prelude to a future talk on Heidegger's "Lett...

He said he'd do what???

More Heidegger.

More Heidegger.

A presentation of Heidegger's book: Basic Concepts.

Reading a nice article by Eric Hendriks-Kim on Chinese interest in Western conservatives.

Reading and commenting on the first part of Heidegger's book/lecture called: Introduction to Philosophy (Thinking and Poetizing).

Reading the article in Foreign Policy by Blake Smith about Fukuyama, Strauss, and liberal democracy.

Can you be "pro-Russia" without being anti-Ukraine?

Alexander Dugin wrote a book against the Great Reset. Here's my review of it. Originally published at europeanconservative.com/reviews/the-great-awakening-vs-the-great-reset/ For online courses on some the thinkers mentioned in this video (Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Strauss, Dugin), visit MillermanSchool.com. Like, subscribe, share, etc.

“In our tarot deck of political philosophy we cannot rest content with any one card, whether fool, magician, or emperor. Only the entire deck permuted will do.” -Beginning with Heidegger

German Thought in America by Millerman Talks

This is about "On the Riddle and the Vision" from Part III of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Get my whole course on Nietzsche's great book at https://millerman.teachable.com/p/subscribe

Letting you in on a secret. NietzscheCourse.com

from NietzscheCourse.com @ MillermanSchool.com

From NietzscheCourse.com @ MillermanSchool.com

An essay on the Right. im1776.com/2020/09/16/the-virtues-of-right-wing-anti-liberalism/

I will try to show that there exists an initiatory theological-philosophical tradition, the acknowledgement of which entails a set of considerations that I believe can shed light on the debate, as framed by JL Mackie in The Subjectivity of Values, about the ontological status of moral entities and relations and the intuitive faculty by means of which they are known. https://www.academia.edu/362910...

A short introduction to the idea of the soulful self. The soul can return to psychology as a significant concept if the facts of mysticism are noted (Hood, 2002). After reflecting upon the construct of the soulful self, psychology can affect a return to positivity that is no longer transcendentally naïve (Davidson; Cosgrove, 2002). If psychology as a science wishes to be genuine – that is, if it d...

Alexander Dugin and the Problem of Political Philosophy by Michael Millerman. Read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTN5G4WcJGCyD69TSG5ZorapSdrcuAL1fSpUMfyyheYyFSQdfuCX6ryNieALksIFA/pub

Anonymity is a catastrophe!?

Felt like reading some passages to you where Martin Heidegger talks about Oswald Spengler. Hopefully you find it interesting. Visit MillermanSchool.com for courses. Cheers!

How does a society fundamentally dedicated to the dignity of the mind banish certain inquiries to the realm of the inadmissible when those inquiries are themselves but expressions of the dignity of the mind? These remarks first appeared here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201811/why-students-are-terrified-speak-their-minds

A talk on technology and philosophy.

My conversation with Michael Michailidis, host of Ancient Greece Revisited and the On Tyranny podcast. We discuss his hero's journey from Greece, to the wasteland of London, then to Spain, and finally back to Greece. You'll hear him talk about Joseph Campbell, Greek myths, Castoriadis, the radical imaginary, Heidegger, Plato, the coronavirus, death, nihilism, mysticism, Leo Strauss, and much more....