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Nature and the Nation
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Nature and the Nation examines a wide array of books for insight into paleoconservatism, naturalism, and the intersection of the two.
I explore human nature through the lens of politics, philosophy, psychology, mythology, economics, and sociology, with an eye toward the advancement of right-wing Republican ideas.
I explore human nature through the lens of politics, philosophy, psychology, mythology, economics, and sociology, with an eye toward the advancement of right-wing Republican ideas.
134. Review: The Conservative Movement by Paul Gottfried
In this episode I look at the Goldwater campaign, the battle over human nature in academia, and the revival of antiestablishment fusionism among the paleocons and paleolibertarians, as described by Paul Gottfried in The Conservative Movement.
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133. Review: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash
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In this episode I look at the birth of National Review, its controversies, and the resolution provided by Fusionism, all described in George Nash's expansive Conservative Intellectual Movement in America SInce 1945.
132. Review: The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard
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In this episode, I look at the Old Right, its birth in the lead-up to World War 2, and its death at the hands of Wall Street Republicans, Dwight Eisenhower, and National Review as described in the fantastic book, The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard.
131. Review: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (Part 2)
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In this episode I continue my exploration of William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, with a focus on the conversion process and the subconscious mind.
130. Review: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (Part 1)
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In this episode I dive into the healthy mind and the sick soul, the foundational concepts of William James' masterpiece, The Varieties of Religious Experience. This is the first of a two-part series.
129. Review: The Odyssey of the American Right by Michael W. Miles
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In this episode I explore the early nationalism of the Republican Party from the New Deal to the Cold War, as described in Michael Miles' Odessey of the American Right, with particular attention paid to US foreign policy at that time.
128. Review: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
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In this episode I look at the contrast, ruptures, and uncertainties among three early Pragmatists: Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, as detailed in Louis Menand's bestselling The Metaphysical Club. I also examine Randolph Bourne's use of Pragmatism to justify cosmopolitan immigration and the unaccountable bureaucracy of the American Association of University Professors.
127. Review: Prophets on the Right by Ronald Radosh
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In this episode I look at the two writers Oswald Garrison Villard and John Flynn, and their associations with the America First Committee as depicted in Ronald Radosh's Prophets on the Right.
126. Review: Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
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In this episode I look at Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions with a focus on the failure of existentialism to acknowledge human nature.
125. Review: William James' Essays on Faith and Morals edited by Ralph Barton Perry
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In this episode I dive deeper into William James' lecture series Talks to Students with the essays On a 'Certain Blindness in Human Beings' and 'What Makes a Life Significant' as presented in Ralph Barton Perry's collection of James' essays, Essays on Faith and Morals. I look particularly at the practicality of this blindness and the balance between ideals and practicality.
124. Review: Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
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In this episode I arrive at Richard Weaver's classic statement of post-war Conservatism, Ideas Have Consequences, in particular the the traditionalist, hierarchical, formal aspects of enduring culture.
123. Review: The Heart of William James edited by Robert Richardson
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In this episode, I discuss William James' consequential essay Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results and his lecture to students, The Gospel of Relaxation, as collected in The Heart of William James, edited by Robert Richardson.
122. Review: Darwinism and Human Affairs (Part 2) by Richard D. Alexander
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In this episode I continue my examination of Darwinism and Human Affairs, this time exploring the connections between cultural evolution and genetic evolution. I focus on ways that cultural evolution both aligns with and betrays our genetic drive to reproduction.
121. Review: Darwinism and Human Affairs (Part 1) by Richard D. Alexander
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In this episode I return to evolutionary theory, discussing the controversy surrounding group selection and its relationship with kin selection and inclusive fitness as described by Richard Alexander in his book Darwinism and Human Affairs.
120. Review: Talks to Teachers by William James
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In this episode I look at William James' further discussions of psychology in Talks to Teachers, in which he draws on prior psychological writings to address the needs of teachers. I pay particular attention to the practical and pragmatic aspect of his discussion of competing drives and ideas, and his limited domain of the activity of the will.
119. Review: Pragmatism: The Classic Writings (Part 2) edited by H. S. Thayer
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119. Review: Pragmatism: The Classic Writings (Part 2) edited by H. S. Thayer
118. Review: Pragmatism: The Classic Writings (Part 1) edited by H. S. Thayer
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118. Review: Pragmatism: The Classic Writings (Part 1) edited by H. S. Thayer
117. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Plato) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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117. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Plato) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
116. Review: Plato by Constance Meinwald
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116. Review: Plato by Constance Meinwald
115. Review: The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
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115. Review: The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
114. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Thucydides) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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114. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Thucydides) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
113. Review: Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature edited by Paul Woodruff
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113. Review: Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature edited by Paul Woodruff
112. Review: Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter
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112. Review: Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter
111. Review: The Social Contract Theorists (Hobbes's War of All Against All) edited by Chris Morris
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111. Review: The Social Contract Theorists (Hobbes's War of All Against All) edited by Chris Morris
110. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Rousseau) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
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110. Review: History of Political Philosophy (Rousseau) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
109. Review: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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109. Review: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
108. Review: The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism
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108. Review: The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism
107. Review: A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick Buchanan
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107. Review: A Republic, Not an Empire by Patrick Buchanan
106. Review: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
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106. Review: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
105. Review: To Make Men Free by Heather Cox Richardson
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105. Review: To Make Men Free by Heather Cox Richardson
Value comes form 2 propel voluntary training with each other’s. Therefor if you force a trade 1 or both of them doesn’t want to do will lead to less value. Aka free trade is optimal. If any country in the past was better than becurse Not all countries have the same amount of oil gas gold and so on.
good job
thank you
I am very impressed by your videos. Your videos are very beautiful. May God bless you.
Were you expressing that you accept a naturalistic version of moral realism, or simply that you have a preference for people to align more with these drives of human nature?
Both. I think we have a rough framework of morals embedded in our nature and acquired through evolution. We've acquired these morals because it benefits us to do so. Everyone's moral framework, although similar, is not identical, and some people have distorted or deformed morals either on account of biological defect or external distorting influences. Therefore while people have basic morals by nature, society has to put up guardrails to create a greater degree of moral conformity if we're to get along well enough to form a group capable of cooperating in competition with other groups, and to isolate and remove moral rejects. I have a preference that people in my own society align with human nature because it is beneficial to my society and thus myself for us to do so.
@natureandthenation Ah okay thanks for the response. One of the biggest problems I take with naturalist accounts of moral realism is that the facts they end up identifying with strike me as descriptive facts. They are not prescriptive nor irreducibly normative. They just seem to be describing judgement patterns, or linguistic practices of a particular group. A moral anti-realist like myself can agree with your descriptive facts, and those facts could even inform my decisions, but they don't tell me what I should do independent of my values. There are various accounts that non-natural moral realists try to give in regards to the prescriptive aspect, but I find them incoherent. Whereas I find the naturalist accounts trivial, and I reject using their terminology. I don't see any facts that the moral reject is necessarily incorrect about on the view.
Cool Durkheim...... Derick Yollis")(".
In summary, liberal economics by using methodological individualism of the rational agent and juxtaposing this method to be used to theorize trade between nations, ignore the basic problem of composition. As list states it " a tailor is not a nation and vice verca". And society is not the sum of the individuals. Very good critique overall. Especially important now , that neoliberal globalization is failing right in front of our eyes.
No idea why the book cover gets momentarily blurry.
Oh, damn, I did not know that. So the whole thing was a hustle. Isn't that always the case? He wanted that prize money, so he took a deliberately contrarian position, truth is he doesn't care about any of that shite. He's just a smart guy and good talker. I've always liked Voltaire a lot, so if he has problems with Rousseau then maybe he really does suck. All I know is the 'social contract' nonsense reeks of being in bad faith. The very idea of it is so stupid and so contrived and so absurd, that you know someone was working some angle when they came up with that.
You should watch Jonathan Pageau's video on Christian symbolism. Looking as the gods as metaphors was a fringe view, what was important was not believing, but appeasing them. A problem with Burkert is that he applies a reductionist reading to the religion, but it's useful from a modern lens.
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These are very interesting texts you’ve investigated. Thank you for your hard work👍
thank you so much and i appreciate the effort
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Great work, would love to see more Durkheim on your channel
@@catherines1571 thanks. I have a bit more Durkheim to read, maybe I'll push it up in the queue.
Amazing timing. I have just discovered William James. Been trying to find videos summarizing his view of the Greeks. But it’s all academic speak, explanations of his ideas. I’m too slow to read. I’d really like a summary of how the Greeks experienced their myths from their perspective so “I can see” from their point of view & perhaps experience it myself.
In my readings of James so far I haven't found that he says much at all about the Greeks. The practical nature of human cognition is miles away from the positions of Socrates and Plato, it's closer to Aristotle and especially the Sophists. I'll definitely have some more to say about pragmatism and the Greeks in some future episodes.
@@natureandthenation I think he wrote a book on it. If I recall, his entire main thesis is illuminating the bicameral mind using ancient society as the example. I have not read his writings so can’t be sure. There are videos to this effect on the William James official channel I recall hinting at this. I’ve been watching their documentary on Ancient Greece is typical but well made.
@@bryanutility9609 can you point me to this documentary?
@@natureandthenation I apologize I misread as “Julian Jaynes”. That’s who I’m thinking of. He has a book or series of lectures directed at teachers too. I was amazed at the coincidence but was wrong. Still I think his ideas are well within the scope of your content.
@@bryanutility9609 interesting. I will check him out.
I enjoyed the video. Another great book to review is Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945 by Mike Hawkins (1997)
thanks for the recommendation (and the feedback)
When a country does not have another country to wage war against they war against themselves.
At least get his name pronounced right.
@@TheWhitehiker too late now
Thank youuuu
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Hello, sir. I'm sure you have a substantial list you're working through, so I don't want to impose with too many recommendations. However, I would like to suggest a few books that I believe would be valuable for you to review: - *Erasing History* by Jason Stanley - *The Underground History of American Education* by John Taylor Gatto - *Liberalism* by Ludwig von Mises - *The Machinery of Freedom* by David D. Friedman - *The Rise and Fall of Society* by Frank Chodorov - *The Law* by Bastiat - *The Shock Doctrine* by Naomi Klein - *Crisis and Leviathan* by Robert Higgs - *Governing Least* by Dan Moller - *The Problem of Political Authority* by Michael Huemer - *Resist Not Evil* by Clarence Darrow - *Nihilistic Times* by Wendy Brown - *Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature* by Murray Rothbard - *A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism* by Hans Hermann Hoppe - *Public Opinion* by Walter Lippmann P.S I was going to donate to you in the past but didn't know how
@@drewdp515 thank you very much for this, this is an excellent list. I'm not familiar with all these but I am with some of them and I will look into the others. There's no mechanism to donate to me right now, at one point I had a patreon but I'm pretty sure it's not active anymore. The best way to support the show is to share it with your friends and help me grow.
@@natureandthenation I’ll see what I can do, though I’m not very active on social media these days. I’ll definitely share some of your material with a few people I think will enjoy it. That said, as a Canadian, I’m kicking myself for not including any Canadian writings on the list. Here are a couple of recommendations: - *Lament for a Nation* by George Grant - *The War Against the Family: A Parent Speaks Out* by Bill Gairdner
Wonderful analysis. A modern paganism would be more akin to the big 5 personality traits & education of competing drives/ virtues, wisdom = knowing when to embrace them. Greed vs. generosity. Kindness vs. cruelty Selfishness vs. selflessness Etc.. this is the new pantheon as such.
Best example I've seen as to how irrational, arbitrary, and presumptuous is philosophy.
What if you're listening from Eruope? You only said hello America. Im dissapointed lol 😂
@@mynameisnobody3931 I'm considering opening up my hello to the greater Western world. Perhaps the more inclusive 'hello dear listener'
@@natureandthenation that sounds good lol
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Social Darwinism is the basic policy of the Republican party and has been for about 100 years, maybe longer. Yet most conservatives don't want Darwin taught in schools. I find that amusing. Natural selection and genetics are the backbone of biology yet our ignorant policy makers want the subjects avoided in schools. Schools are supposed to enlighten, yes?
this episode was lame. this is not a book that deserves to be paid attention
@@obiwangaenomi sorry you feel that way. Social darwinism is a precursor to right-leaning evolutionary psychology but has been maligned by history. Worth exploring on that account I think.
@@natureandthenation i am not saying social darwinism is wrong. i think this is stuff that all of your listeners probably know already.
@@natureandthenation i listened to the whole thing and i did not come across anything that may be new.
@@obiwangaenomi I try not to presume that my listeners already know anything other than what I've already said or what could be learned through a subpar high school education. This is my first episode on social darwinism so it's fairly introductory.
@@natureandthenation sorry if i offended you in anyway. i enjoy listening to yours.
great video, you just got a new subscriber
@@adeogo9989 thanks! Welcome aboard
You lost me at "Paleoconservatism" and "revitalizing the republican party." Any political ideology which does not have at its core an ethnocentric component is doomed to fail.
@@OdhinnAwake the US has the strongest right wing of any English speaking nation. Politics of some kind is inevitable, but if it's true that there is no political solution, the non political solution will initiate elsewhere. The US has the capacity to solve our problems politically which requires a political party. A nation is built of three things, first geography, then ethnicity, then culture. First geography because two nations cannot occupy the same space at the same time. It is fundamentally a territorial affair. Second ethnicity, as citizenship of a nation is an inherited trait that passes through the blood to descendants. Thirdly it is cultural, as language, religion etc are the shared expressions of peoplehood that bring bring mutual loyalty from the theoretical to the actual.
Excellent episode
Thanks!
*_LIBERAL_* Fascism? Here is the essence of Fascism: *_"I alone can fix this. Allow me to be dictator for just a day, and I will return the government to you. If you give me absolute immunity and unlimited authority to fire public officials, I will drain the swamp. I will remove the dirty animals who are poisoning the blood of the nation. We shall look backward to the glorious golden past and revive the mythic lost wonder of our previous age and make America great again."_* There is nothing more un-American that the rhetoric of this man.
A properly functioning America will blend the best components of libertarianism, traditional conservatism, fascism, and a sprinkle of leftism for good measure. Everything you quoted is both desirable and necessary. Trump calls us to revere the mythic golden age of Saturn. He is the embodiment of right-wing European atheopaganism, under guise of Christianity in a Machiavellian masterstroke.
@@natureandthenation donald is an absolute rejection of the values expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address and the Preamble of our Constitution, and enshrined in the *_TEXT_* of our Constitution. donald is the most anti-American politician I have ever heard of, not excluding Confederate President Jefferson Davis. I agree, though, that donald and his masters at the group with the Orwellian name "Heritage Foundation" are Machiavellian in the extreme.
I read this recently. Great read. I think we need to realize that Europe is both Pagan and Christian at once, it has a sort of split soul. For a while these two impulses coexisted all the way through the middle ages. But it was an uneasy mixing. You can interpret Paganism as basically European culture and mindsets laid bare. I think the solution is for Christians to stop calling pre-Christian European culture devil worship. That era of history is why the west was powerful and good, and Christianity was rather made to fit into that. I consider myself pretty Pagan, though I don't care for polytheism vs monotheism. But on the overall nature of the divine, definitely Pagan. Regardless of how many divine being there are(even monotheists don't believe there is only one divine being), I think it all comes from one source ultimately, but this source is largely unknowable to us.
This is what I believe.
All I want to hear about is European paganism. Thanks
This kind of thing is totally amazing to me. I have always felt a sense of boredom with Christianity.
As someone who has always had right wing tendencies, but also was never properly Christian, I'm very drawn to this too. Christianity never fully made sense to me. I'm of a very Pagan mindset, but I don't think we should seek to fully reconstruct these religions either. We need something for today. That's why I'm not really a hard polytheist.
To desacralize the world is to allow for people to destroy the nature world and extort it for resources.
ua-cam.com/video/_8xxVplUHL8/v-deo.htmlsi=SxXaQhjanU09RZoM One deeper history of WWI's orgins
Buchanan is basing his historical passages regarding WWI and it's aftermath on the official narratives of the victors. The truth is different.
Wow looking back 6 years and thinking about the wild ride that's about to come.....
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what rubbish. Why is fascism bad?
Why are you making presumptions?
Since when is Liberalism, the Ideology of Capitalism Left? Following the Title it must be total rubbish.
So there is a body of historical research on fascism that Goldberg flat out ignores in order to produce this polemic. See the work of Robert O. Paxton as an example.
Oxymoron by a moron
I'm very sympathetic to your position, but have you changed your mind at all since this was recorded?
My positions since starting the show haven't changed much. I'm slightly less libertarian and slightly more identitarian.
Oy vey! Jonah Goldberg! I’m sure this book isn’t subversive at all.
What a surprise - an Anti-Semite.
If you wanna study syndicalism, study Argentina
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