Why didn’t Sparta produce philosophers?
3. BAP and the inconsistencies of his philosophical imaginarium
[*Ed.: this is the third and final blog in a series by U. Toronto political science Professor, Ronald Beiner, on the ideas of avowed fascist online figure “Bronze Age Pervert” [BAP]. In this entry, Beiner examines some of the basic contradictions in BAP’s mythologising of “Western history” in order to justify his neoNietzschean vision of a new aristocracy dedicated to “selective breeding” to overcome modern pluralist societies].
Alamariu [aka “Bronze Age Pervert”] claims to be speaking not just as the champion of a certain (pretty ruthless) political vision but, no less, as the champion of “philosophy” as a human possibility and of the philosophers as a certain kind of human being. This aspect of Alamariu’s theorizing is dictated by his fidelity to Nietzsche because of the centrality that Alamariu accords to Nietzsche’s preoccupation with the preservation of philosophy as a way of life.*
[* this idea is today most famously associated with Pierre Hadot, who focussed on the Greek and Roman philosophers. Nietzsche has a vision of philosophy as a way of life which, especially after 1882, is explicitly opposed to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian legacies which Hadot preeminently studied, which the later Nietzsche…