[...Hegel once said that no state can be great without a great philosophy... ] Hegel also spoke nonsense about Astronomy because of his Dialectical view of the Universe. Some of his words are interesting. Others are nonsense.
I would look more to guys like Tolstoy. He isn't an academic philosopher. But his thoughts are also interesting. He reflects in "War and Peace" the thinking of the Russian people. We are humans and don't differ that much. The problem is with the leadership. Napoleon too aggressive and grandiose. Tsar Alexander incapable of leading an army.
It is astonishing that the Russian intellectuals like Dugin have not noticed that Christianity has failed even absolute monarchs. Russians of all people should know that not only did the Russian Revolutionaries commit regicide, they murdered the entire Russian Royal Family to see that the ugly face of absolute monarchy never raises its ugly head in Russia ever again.
Surely Dugin knows that the only purpose of Christianity was to defend the divine right of kings and hasn't he noticed that it has utterly failed to do so?
Has he not noticed that Christendom ended in 1918?
There will only be national sovereignty when the nation concerned has a moral system strong enough to defend itself against its internal and external enemies, and this will only happen when it decisively removes its anachronism of Christianity after it has removed its anachronism of absolute monarchy.
I completely agree, and I think returning Russia to its Orthodox foundation is Putin's great work.
That said, I'm skeptical that it will work long term, because, unlike say Confucianism, Orthodoxy is NOT a sovereign philosophy. It is a derivation of Abrahamism and classical Greek thought (like all Western philosophy).
Abrahamism especially has a fatal flaw in that it is anti-social--especially the Christian variations that are all fundamentally self-focused.
I call the problem of Christianity the "'I/my problem".
I trace this philosophy of "I/my" from the Akedah where Abraham elevates his personal faith above reason ("my faith tells me to sacrifice my son to yahweh")...
To Augustine's ("my personal faith in Christ matters most")...
To Descartes' elevation of personal reason above all ("I think therefore I am")...
To Locke's "my property"...
To Nietzsche's "killing of god" only to replace "my faith" with "my will to power"...
To modern Relativism's elevation of "my personal truth"...
Even transgenderism is just a natural extension of Christian "I/my" thinking.
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My unfortunate thesis is that societies built upon Western/Christian philosophy are doomed to self destruct. A society of selfish individualists operate on the basis of "prisoner's dilemma". The best outcome one can hope for in a prisoner's dilemma--where ethics, altruism, selflessness are punished--is merely Nash Equilibrium at best.
[...Hegel once said that no state can be great without a great philosophy... ] Hegel also spoke nonsense about Astronomy because of his Dialectical view of the Universe. Some of his words are interesting. Others are nonsense.
I would look more to guys like Tolstoy. He isn't an academic philosopher. But his thoughts are also interesting. He reflects in "War and Peace" the thinking of the Russian people. We are humans and don't differ that much. The problem is with the leadership. Napoleon too aggressive and grandiose. Tsar Alexander incapable of leading an army.
It is astonishing that the Russian intellectuals like Dugin have not noticed that Christianity has failed even absolute monarchs. Russians of all people should know that not only did the Russian Revolutionaries commit regicide, they murdered the entire Russian Royal Family to see that the ugly face of absolute monarchy never raises its ugly head in Russia ever again.
Surely Dugin knows that the only purpose of Christianity was to defend the divine right of kings and hasn't he noticed that it has utterly failed to do so?
Has he not noticed that Christendom ended in 1918?
There will only be national sovereignty when the nation concerned has a moral system strong enough to defend itself against its internal and external enemies, and this will only happen when it decisively removes its anachronism of Christianity after it has removed its anachronism of absolute monarchy.
I completely agree, and I think returning Russia to its Orthodox foundation is Putin's great work.
That said, I'm skeptical that it will work long term, because, unlike say Confucianism, Orthodoxy is NOT a sovereign philosophy. It is a derivation of Abrahamism and classical Greek thought (like all Western philosophy).
Abrahamism especially has a fatal flaw in that it is anti-social--especially the Christian variations that are all fundamentally self-focused.
I call the problem of Christianity the "'I/my problem".
I trace this philosophy of "I/my" from the Akedah where Abraham elevates his personal faith above reason ("my faith tells me to sacrifice my son to yahweh")...
To Augustine's ("my personal faith in Christ matters most")...
To Descartes' elevation of personal reason above all ("I think therefore I am")...
To Locke's "my property"...
To Nietzsche's "killing of god" only to replace "my faith" with "my will to power"...
To modern Relativism's elevation of "my personal truth"...
Even transgenderism is just a natural extension of Christian "I/my" thinking.
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My unfortunate thesis is that societies built upon Western/Christian philosophy are doomed to self destruct. A society of selfish individualists operate on the basis of "prisoner's dilemma". The best outcome one can hope for in a prisoner's dilemma--where ethics, altruism, selflessness are punished--is merely Nash Equilibrium at best.
Once it is accepted that Christianity has failed, sharia will become the obvious answer.