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I'm having a debate with Oliver Cromwell on Spacebattles. Come by and watch him pwn me or something.

No, there's a difference between not standing up for something and standing up for something insignificant. Curtis Yarvin makes the distinction in his essay. Of the Centrists (which he refers to as Mensheviks in his essay), he writes:

Not... exactly. The point of my essay is that the Centrists do stand for something. They stand for what Leftism was back in 2012.

Come and see it here.

Please improve your character. Maybe reading this response I made will help.

You are guilty of making sweeping and outrageous statements about my beliefs repeatedly and without evidence. The only one who isn't talking directly here is you.

I feel I have to write this little tidbit against Oliver Cromwell, who is, I'm sorry to say, no longer among us. May he troll somewhere else. The problem with much of his work is that he seemed to be dead-set on leveling cliched arguments at me. For example, he seemed not to understand how...

I find it utterly impossible to justify this. How can you say that Thomism "seems to be ignore the reality of the Fall"? Especially since Thomas Aquinas wrote extensively on the subject?

I wrote a new essay on Individualism.

I’m glad you enjoy my essays.

Well, first off, I never, in that essay, proved that things remained the same. That would require proving the existence of real essences, which I argued for in the essay after that one. That particular essay was all about the negative consequences of rejecting the teleo-essentialist worldview...

I wrote an essay on Cancel Culture here. Give it a good look-over!

No, it wasn't. I fixed, it thankfully. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

So last time, we talked about teleo-essentialism, contrasting it with the modern philosophy. While the teleo-essentialist believes things have knowable essences with purposes, the bongo (the advocate of modernist philosophy) believes there exists no essences or purposes. The modernist view is...

Those are some very good questions. Being an Aristotelian, I do not believe we can learn of the essences of things from the armchair, but through getting our hands dirty, from observing and measuring them in the material world. Science, I believe, does give us truth, but not the full truth...

Modern philosophy considered broadly distinguishes itself from the earlier Aristotelian and Neo-Platonist philosophies by its rejection of inherent natures imbued with a divinely-given purpose. This teleological-cum-essentialist (or teleo-essentialist) view of reality informed much of early...

To my mind, both the Neo-Platonic and Aristotelian positions are incomplete in some fashion, and the synthesis of the Scholastics (called "Scholastic Realism" or "Theistic Conceptual Realism") is the correct view. The Neo-Platonists are right in that the universals must exist in some sense...

You don't understand what a square circle is.