Carl Schmitt: Human Nature (Concept of the Political)

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In this lecture we provide a concise summary and explanation of the controversial political theorist and jurist Carl Schmitt's "The Concept of the Political."
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).

[WiseNationalSocialism]

Beautiful! I love this more than the videos on Machiavelli. I find a potency in your delivery that is rare, and quite valuable.

[Lysanderfication]

Somebody put this on a P.A. and set on repeat. Thank you Paul.

[TheGhostofCarlSchmitt]

this is also a good perspective into why woke isn't even mostly marxist. The root problem lies in the nature of liberal humanist individualism. This is also why libertarianism, be it left or right, is not really even a challenge to the status quo.

[willmerjacques]

Well anarchists certainly don’t need to see people as inherently good (stirner certainly didn’t), though they may deny certain conceptions of individualist, amoralist, or selfish conceptions of human nature (I mean that’s kropotkin’s whole mutual aid )

[pozzowon]

The problem with his human nature approach is it being a scale invariant hypothesis. Whereas in real life, tribalism is everywhere because of scale variance

[jimihough]

Love your Videos so much. It’d be awesome if you could do a video on the British empiricists.

[Claude_the_Reaper]

what is a civil identity ? status through wealth and relationships ?