I have Julius Evola’s philosophy of race as a regular philosophy of race with one difference- it is nonbiological. When Evola says what is the most important is the race of the “spirit,” he is using this word in the Berkeleyan sense- meaning mind. Don’t be confused by the ordinary language movement and confuse this with zeitgeist. Berkeley used the word spirit as synonymous with mind, and this is carrying over to Evola which is using his theory as a replacement for the brain. Evola’s magical idealism is a form of subjective idealism and the dialectical procedure is deriving from the subject. Many contemporaries in today would interpret Evola’s theory in the latter sense using the ordinary language movement. However, the ordinary language movement is really to be seen as a degeneration and a misunderstanding of how philosophy is to be interpreted in the first place. So Evola’s philosophy of race is a regular philosophy of race, although he is not allowing the English to get into control with their biological methods.
On the Nonbiological Nature of Race
Evola is simply attempting to maintain proper relationships statuses. What takes priority for Evola is the person’s race. Two people who are the most suited for each other are two people of the same race. If someone who is northern European subscribes to stoicism, for example, he is northern European who is subscribing to stoicism, and retains the features of a northern European, and not a person who is a member of the roman race. Thus, there are no hard feelings- everybody shares the most features with the race they belong to. And if that person gets in a relationship with that person she will notice features of the northern European showing up in his personality. There are two aspects of a person- the philosophy he expounds and his nature. Thus, two people who are the most suited for each other are two people of the same race. At the same time, it is permissible by Evola to move outside your race and invent some interesting concoctions in certain cases. If a Muslim marries a Catholic for example, that is somewhat risky metaphysically speaking, but can be surpassed if the love is strong enough. The child of these two people could consider himself Muslim or Catholic.
Where Evola’s theory is of most value is in cases where someone is in a part of a region that could be classified as ambiguous such as in Mesoamerica. Evola is not declaring the Mesoamericans to declare themselves indigenous because that is whe4re their sprit lies. What he is declaring is that it is impossible to tell through biological methods how indigenous or how Spanish the Mexican is. If a person has an ambiguous case such as he may have say 20 % indigenous in him it is up to the individuals understanding of his body and mind to understand what portion of it he is. In other words you eyeball it. Instead of the biological methods, this person and the community will have some leeway in regarding him to be perhaps 40% indigenous or perhaps 10 % indigenous.
On the Identicality of the Races
At the same time, it is important to note that Evola is removing the brain so he regards all the races to be near identical in ability. Evola’s theory if implemented properly, is really a very superior form of race because he is declaring all races to be about identical, although different. Thus, one should be preserving of the different racial relationships, but should at the same time create a society that emphasizes the identicality of all races. The society should try as hard as they can to emphasize all races while recognizing differences within the races. And this really makes sense. Thus, in a masonic society, everybody gets along in harmony, while recognizing differences in the individual races. The Africans for example have not had much of a philosophical history over the last 200 years, but they are the inventors of one of the greatest metaphysical theories in existence: Neoplatonism, and they are also home to the Egyptians, one of the greatest religions to have come into existence, and arguably originated shamanism, although there is no biological guarantee of this. The Mideasterners can be argued to have been derived from Africa.
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