Our Douglas Mercer challenged Professor Cleary under part-1 in this series, here: https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/he ... il-part-1/
Will Williams: October 26, 2024
Collin Cleary: October 26, 2024 Oh yes, definitely. See also this essay on the early Schelling for an account of his break with Fichte:
https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/in ... ng-part-i/
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There is no mention of Fichte in the above article, but the break is made clear in your linked one:
Spinoza and Pantheism: Schelling parted company with Fichte on the question of the nature of nature partly as a result of his enthusiasm for the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch Jew who is considered one of the primary figures in the rationalist movement in modern philosophy. Spinoza argued that God is the whole — the entire universe of being, and therefore that nothing exists outside God.
William Pierce’s Cosmotheism is said to be an elaboration of Pantheism, but he makes clear that the early Pantheist Spinoza’s new creed naturally has a Jewish flavor, thus is unsuitable for today’s Whites, being different from Cosmotheism. From: “WLP86: William Pierce on Cosmotheism, Wave of the Future” at nationalvanguard.org. |
It may be generally true that the Talmud is the typical expression of the Jewish race-soul and that the Jew with intellectual pretensions is epitomized by the modern hair-splitting, haggling lawyer. Nevertheless, some Jews have seen the Cosmotheist truth underlying modern science, and they are quite clever and quite energetic enough to try to establish for themselves a dominant position in giving expression to this truth – and in interpreting it for everyone else, so that they can blunt the danger it poses to them, and so they can turn it aside and guide it into safe channels. It would be quite naïve of us to say that Cosmotheism is our truth, not theirs, and that we have a natural advantage in interpreting it and that it would be as unnatural and awkward for a Jew to try to set himself up as a Cosmotheist as it would be for a White man to set himself up as a Talmudist and try to debate the rabbis on points of Talmudic doctrine. After all, a Jew, Baruch Spinoza, was one of the foremost expounders of pantheism in the 17th century, at a time when that was hardly a safe or a popular position for anyone to take. He was, in fact, excommunicated by his fellow Jews as a consequence. But because Spinoza was a Jew, he couldn’t help but give a Jewish flavor, a Jewish interpretation, to his pantheism. In particular, the ethical conclusions that he drew from his pantheism were strictly Jewish, and I think it’s only fair to assume that Spinoza had no ulterior motive….
It would be easy to take a shot across the bow of a man who died more than a century ago. I’m no big fan of Schelling with all his talk about the “traditional God.” I do know that Johan Gottlieb Fitchte is recognized as an early proponent of the German National Socialist world view. An Alliance member is presently working on updating and republishing the long article that Dr. Pierce wrote in 1979 that is favorable to Mr. Fichte. It begins on page 152 of The Best of Attack! and National Alliance for those who have a copy of that book.