On a recent reply to a post on John Crow’s blog concerning values, “Keith418” posted this: Where do values like this come from? Many of us suspect a transcendent origin for certain values. “The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it […]

In our last entry, Sun enters Ascendant of Aries, we discussed Aleister Crowley’s definition of “magick”: the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will and commented on how the principle question relates not to the “causing Change” part as many suspect, but to the “conformity with Will” part. In other […]

Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy which flourish from around the beginning of the third century B.C.E. until the sixth century C.E. It was highly influential, and became “the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Greco-Roman Empire.” [Amos & Lang] It is of interest because many of its tenets bear a […]

Yes, the fundamental postulates of that philosophy being the non-existence of objective moral qualities of any kind, and the natural conclusion that the “proper” course of action for any given individual is therefore that course of action which is most natural to him, as opposed to an alternative course of action which is mandated by […]