Montana Classical College

I am re-purposing some COVID recordings for MCC. This is part 1 of 4. I used this edition of the New Atlantis . My understanding was greatly benefited by the interpretive essay in the edition mentioned above, as well as by the comments in this book and this book . This is an introductory lecture that sticks close to the text. I genuinely welcome any critical feedback or interpretive disagreements....

I. Introduction II. Remarque’s Argument Against War * War is Morbid/Horrifying * War Turns Men into Animals * War is Arbitrary III. Jünger on War and Love * On the Love of His Nation * On His Love of his Enemies * On His Love for his Friends * On his Love for Himself IV. Concluding Thoughts * Why do Serious People on the Right and Left Oppose Liberalism? * Does the Logic of Liberalism Point to a W...

I. Opening and Brief Summary of Previous Session II. Difficulties in Kant’s Preliminary Articles III. Kant on Why an Allied Federation of Republics is Superior to a One World State IV. Schmitt on how Liberalism Tries to Evade the Logic of the Political V. Schmitt on What is at Stake if the Political is Lost Links to things mentioned : Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of t...

Concise outline of the audio lecture: I. Introductory Thoughts (Listen to Dmitry Shostakovich’s 2nd Waltz here to take a nice break) II. A Satirical View of World History from the Perspective of the Universal Human Rights Advocate (Listen to Eugen Doga’s Gramofone Waltz here to take a nice break) III. A Praise and Blame of Curtis Yarvin List of links to things mentioned : Curtis Yarvin’s RIP Globa...