Troy Southgate Oct 29, 2025 OVER the last 15 years, Black Front Press has built up a dedicated hardcore of readers but it is often very difficult for us to reach new people. If you have friends, work colleagues or family members who might be interested in purchasing […]
Troy Southgate Oct 27, 2025 JUST ARRIVED !! Troy Southgate’s ZARATHUSTRA’S LEGACY: RUDOLF STEINER AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE is now in stock. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you […]
Troy Southgate Oct 26, 2025 MUCH like his Perennialist counterpart, René Guénon (1886—1951), Schuon’s writing style is considered and deliberative. It is for this reason that the opening chapter of his work, ‘Conceptual Dimensions,’ attempts to set out the preliminary terms upon which the rest of his metaphysics […]
Troy Southgate Oct 17, 2025 AS many of you know, I have been wrongly vilified by the liberal-left for many years and it is alleged that I am some kind of ‘neo-nazi’ on account of having been a member of the National Front (NF) in the mid- to […]
Troy Southgate Oct 19, 2025 SOME of you might be interested to hear that when we first published this volume, Richard Levy kindly uploaded a couple of his poems to YouTube and these can be found in the links below. Richard is best known for his musical adventures […]
Troy Southgate Oct 17, 2025 IT seems rather surprising, given long-term interest in the nature of the inner and outer worlds, that more has not been made of a priori thought in terms of it providing a good basis for the complementary relationship that exists between the mental […]
Troy Southgate Oct 12, 2025 I AM no longer Christian, but almost wept when I saw what the so-called ‘Church of England’ has done to Canterbury Cathedral to celebrate the appointment of a female archbishop. When I spent three years at the local university during the mid-1990s, I […]
Troy Southgate Oct 11, 2025 AS many of you know, although I have absolutely no problem with anti-fascists if they are peaceful, I have no time for groups like Antifa that merely set out to silence the political opposition on behalf of either the authoritarian Left or, more […]
Troy Southgate Oct 09, 2025 AS we have seen, the rationalising tendency operating within religion – and especially Western Christianity – distorts our perception of God, although Otto is quick to point out that discarding the rational altogether in favour of the numinous would be equally foolish. Surprisingly, […]
Troy Southgate Oct 05, 2025 My new book, ZARATHUSTRA’S LEGACY: RUDOLF STEINER AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, is now available to order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can […]
Troy Southgate Oct 05, 2025 NEXT, and beneath the auspices of Otto’s expert guidance, we must turn to the three means by which the numinous deigns to express itself. Firstly, and by far the more obvious method, is that of direct means. The numinous is not imparted in […]
Troy Southgate Oct 04, 2025 WITH Otto having established that human self-consciousness pales into insignificance during the unparalleled approach of the numinous, something which must be distinguished from more general feelings of dependence or inferiority, the philosopher also wishes to focus on the self-depreciation that arises as a […]
Troy Southgate Oct 03, 2025 IN order to avoid the simplifying lure of conceptualisation, the inner workings of the harmonious combination involving the mysterium tremendum and what Otto calls “fascination” can only be outlined to a certain extent. To further develop the nature of this relationship, therefore, he […]
Troy Southgate Oct 02, 2025 OTTO attributes an interesting duality to the numinous and this represents a “harmony of contrasts”. The two aspects which comprise this complementarity are labelled “the daunting” and “the fascinating,” something he regards as the most important phenomenon in the history of world religion. […]
Troy Southgate Sep 21, 2025 WHEN, in 2023, Penguin Books published Mark Sedgwick’s Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order, I was surprised to discover that not a single mention had been made of Black Front Press; neither in the text, nor in the bibliography at the […]
Troy Southgate Sep 21, 2025 IN Part Three of this series we examined how Fichte looked at the world in terms of “the Ego,” amid the claim that the consequences of Idealist spirituality are no different to those of the materialist who presents the external world in the […]
Troy Southgate Sep 20, 2025 UNDERSTANDING that concepts and ideas are “given” also leads us a subsequent stage in which we can begin to learn more about the cognitive process itself. Thus far, Steiner’s examples have been very selective in terms of limiting what we receive from the […]
Troy Southgate Sep 19, 2025 ONE must, according to Steiner, begin by suspending everything one knows about human knowledge. This involves bypassing that which has already been determined by others through the process of cognition and means adopting a starting-point that has not yet become a factor of […]
Troy Southgate Sep 18, 2025 HAVING dealt with Kant, Steiner decides to trace the lingering influence of the philosophy as it developed in the wake of his death. Not in terms of discussing German Idealists such as Schelling and Hegel, nor by revisiting the work of Fichte, but […]
Troy Southgate Sep 17, 2025 IN Part Five, we discussed how Kant confines knowledge of the world to the conceptualisation of external objects and that such objects cannot be regarded as “things-in-themselves” because they lie beyond the limited range of human understanding. Kant also states that the world […]
Troy Southgate Sep 16, 2025 Introductory remarks AT this point in The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, Steiner turns his thoughts to the relationship between truth and science. As he explains: Theory of Knowledge aims at being a scientific investigation of the very fact which all other sciences take […]
Troy Southgate Sep 15, 2025 AS we have seen, Steiner devotes a great deal of time to the discussion of Monism and believes that it accounts for the explanation of nature in accordance with a single principle. Nonetheless, Steiner also points out that whilst Monism allows for the […]
Troy Southgate Sep 14, 2025 THAT The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity is so intensely focussed on the role of the individual means that Steiner must identity both who and what the individual actually is. This, he explains in a chapter under the heading ‘The Individual and the Genus’. […]
Troy Southgate Sep 13, 2025 FIRSTLY, let me say that on the grand scale of things the shooting of Charlie Kirk has no real importance. At best, Kirk was completely naïve to believe that anything can be achieved within the existing System. At worst, he was – be […]
Troy Southgate Sep 13, 2025 EXAMINING the nature of life, philosophically or otherwise, means taking into account its actual value. On the one hand, there are those who insist that the world is perfect – or at least as good as we are going to get – and […]
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Troy Southgate Sep 12, 2025 THREE tremendous advantages that the free spirit has over his fellow human beings are those of resourcefulness, creativity and imagination. The latter, in particular, fulfils a very important role. Unlike those whose actions are informed by the ideas that are given to them […]
Troy Southgate Sep 11, 2025 AS we saw in the last part of this series, if man is to become a free spirit then he must work towards it gradually in the way that an apprentice worker might develop the skills he requires to succeed at a certain […]
Troy Southgate Sep 10, 2025 JUST ARRIVED !! Troy Southgate’s NAZIS, FASCISTS OR NEITHER? IDEOLOGICAL CREDENTIALS OF THE BRITISH FAR RIGHT, 1987-1994 is now in stock. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal […]
Troy Southgate Sep 09, 2025 WHILST the percept allows us to form a concept by way of thought, at which point we make a connection between the two, Steiner suggests that when we observe the thought-process itself we find ourselves involved in a “self-sustaining activity” that represents an […]
Troy Southgate Sep 09, 2025 WHILST the percept allows us to form a concept by way of thought, at which point we make a connection between the two, Steiner suggests that when we observe the thought-process itself we find ourselves involved in a “self-sustaining activity” that represents an […]
Troy Southgate Sep 08, 2025 IN a fairly brief chapter on ‘The Factors of Life,’ Steiner provides a summary of the points that he has made so far. That each individual is a “thing among things,” he says, leads us to determine the nature of the world by […]
Troy Southgate Sep 07, 2025 WITH reality explained by the coming-together of perception and thought, something that ultimately transcends “the world of appearances” through knowledge, that which we originally perceive as Duality is transformed into Monism. As we saw in Part Three of this series, what we first […]
Troy Southgate Sep 06, 2025 WHILST humans are not identical to the objects of the external world, we are nonetheless part of that world in the sense that we contain the same drives and share in its cosmic destiny as subjects: Hence, for a relation to subsist between […]
Troy Southgate Sep 04, 2025 YESTERDAY, we were exposed to one of those infamous ‘live mic’ incidents that I have discussed in the past and which involve leading politicians supposedly having an informal discussion that they assumed was private. Needless to say, there is little doubt that these […]
Troy Southgate Sep 05, 2025 THE fact that Critical Idealism views the perceptual world as an “ideal world” in which that which is unknown to us acts on the soul, means that the philosophy itself – which Steiner nonetheless describes as a “truth” – seems incapable of realising […]
Troy Southgate Sep 04, 2025 AS we have seen, the formulation of a concept by way of thought is something that goes beyond mere observation. The “perceived object” is thus associated with an “ideal object” that remains even after the former is no longer seen, just as one’s […]
Troy Southgate Sep 03, 2025 STEINER makes an interesting point about the difference between observation and conceptualisation. If we think of the way in which one billiard ball strikes against a second and thus determines its consequent speed and direction, it is clear that when it comes to […]
Troy Southgate Sep 01, 2025 THE question of whether we make our own decisions, rather than act out of pure necessity, is one that has preoccupied some of the greatest minds in history and yet when it comes to accounting for the complex nature of human thoughts and […]
Troy Southgate Aug 31, 2025 IN 1894 Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) published what remains one of his most important works, The Philosophy of Freedom, which originally appeared in German under the title Die Philosophie der Freiheit. Although “freiheit” is directly related to the English word, “freedom,” by […]
Troy Southgate Aug 31, 2025 AS a National-Anarchist, I am opposed to all forms of coercion and yet believe that if Christians, Muslims or Jews wish to impose upon themselves a system that involves voluntary submission to a religious code of ethics that such a policy is compatible […]
Troy Southgate Aug 24, 2025 Troy Southgate’s FASCISTS, NAZIS OR NEITHER? IDEOLOGICAL CREDENTIALS OF THE BRITISH FAR RIGHT, 1987-1994 is now available to order. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is […]
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Troy Southgate Aug 17, 2025 Neither Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) nor Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) require much of an introduction to regular readers of my Substack, at least as they are discussed within their own particular fields of interest, but this series of essays is more unusual in that it […]
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Troy Southgate Aug 12, 2025 ALTHOUGH Although I have discussed the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) at length on a number of occasions, here I would like to explore his ideas on political freedom. From Spinoza’s perspective, an individual is only free to the extent that he is […]
Troy Southgate Aug 10, 2025 BOWDEN: THOUGHTS & PERSPECTIVES is now available to pre-order. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Cover: Francisco […]
Troy Southgate Aug 04, 2025 ALTHOUGH the position of the ruling class is presently unassailable and it is often very difficult to make any kind of significant ‘dent’ in the seemingly impenetrable monolith of International Capitalism, we must continue to prepare for the worst-case scenario. There is little […]
Troy Southgate Aug 07, 2025 A BANNER at a recent pro-refugee event in London declared that ‘The Enemy Doesn’t Arrive by Boat, He Arrives by Limousine’. This is absolutely correct, although the Left-wing demonstrators campaigning for open borders completely fail to realise that mass immigration is a symptom […]
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