I find that LaVey’s ideas clearly fall in line with those that were either exclusive to Rand or shared between her and Nietzsche, and this is the thesis that I’ll be defending in this essay.
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Socrates
I thought the best way to get back to work would be to get back to my roots, and indeed to the roots of all Western philosophy, that being the ancient Athenian philosophers Socrates and Plato, whose work is of central relevance to Satanism, as I’ll be exploring in this essay.
An Answer to the Pathologies of Ideology
Photo by Stillness InMotion on Unsplash This essay is also available as a podcast on anchor.fm In the first two parts of this month’s series, I’ve explored what I’ve referred to as the pathologies of human ideology, those aspects of human ideology with a strong potential to turn their ideologies toxic. With an emphasis on their manifestation in religion,…
Nihilism
I’ve never pinned down what exactly I mean by nihilism in anything more than a cursory way. This episode will remedy that deficiency and explore why nihilism, such as I construe it, is a pathological ideology.
The Satanic Struggle of Perfectionism
To me, this chapter of the Passion narrative, considering all the actors present, does indeed present a broad portrait of humanity: cruelty, vindictiveness, our capacity to suffer and to endure suffering, and our divine and human natures present together.