The following is a full transcript of the speech I presented in Porto at the Colóquio Internacional: Julius Evola em Portugal (1974-2024) on Saturday October 19th, 2024.
The most interesting and convincing essay I have read on existentialism - full of points that I will need to think over, which articulate many of the embryonic responses to existentialism I have had over the years. Evola is of course persona non grata to my generation, anathema sit. So it is very interesting that in contrast to his political views, there seems to be gold buried in the toxic seams of his complex mind.
Without revisiting the essay, I feel the main point for me is that the 20th C existentialists were cloaking with obscure jargon the age old debate about free will/determinism and and uncaused cause, unmoved mover as well as Kant's antinomies... Ill stop because I feel tied up in Gordian knots of my own making!
The most interesting and convincing essay I have read on existentialism - full of points that I will need to think over, which articulate many of the embryonic responses to existentialism I have had over the years. Evola is of course persona non grata to my generation, anathema sit. So it is very interesting that in contrast to his political views, there seems to be gold buried in the toxic seams of his complex mind.
Thanks, Moe. I'm pleased you found it useful.
Without revisiting the essay, I feel the main point for me is that the 20th C existentialists were cloaking with obscure jargon the age old debate about free will/determinism and and uncaused cause, unmoved mover as well as Kant's antinomies... Ill stop because I feel tied up in Gordian knots of my own making!