Humanism: Surhumanism
The philosophical and political attitude inherited from Graeco-Roman civilisation, which advocates the ideal of the free man — liberated from dogmas and from barbarism, part of a civil order, and cognisant of the diversity of nations.
In no case should humanism be associated with humanitarianism, as Yvan Blot (President of the Club de l’Horloge)[1] explains, ‘The humanist ideal is a synthesis of the ideal of liberty and the ideal of enrootment. To values of free speech, competitiveness, the striving for excellence, the desire to be first, there corresponds Greek values of honour, justice, equity, family loyalty, patriotism, religion — and of “philanthropy”, in the sense of that which is human’.
Humanism is a ‘school of realism’ that sees man, without utopian or optimistic expectations, as he is. It advocates both wisdom and ambition, respects differences and rejects unwarranted hatreds — but at the same time it recognises the existence of different ethnic and cultural identities.
The humanist attitude is the opposite of the desert’s fanatical monotheistic religions, particularly Islam. But it’s not a form of absolute tolerance nor, above all, is it an egalitarianism. Humanism — an anti-chaos attitude par excellence, a doctrine of equilibrium — rejects brutal dictatorship and totalitarian regimes, just as it rejects social permissiveness. It defends justice, the City’s holistic hierarchy, and patriotic duty. It similarly rejects cosmopolitanism and every vision of a ‘united, uniform humanity’ (the utopia of the ‘World State’), since the idea of ethnic distinction and civic equity are central to its conception of the political. A doctrine of wisdom and balance, a school of will and a subject of the real, humanism is the basis of the ‘state of law’ — today completely abused by its ‘democratic’ defenders.
The basis of humanism, a central tenet of the European tradition and its Graeco-Roman heritage, is thus the recognition and fusion of justice, positive law, citizenship, and ethnic identity.
Surhumanism, a Nietzschean notion conceptually developed by Giorgio Locchi, is a humanism for an age of crisis and transcendence. It’s a positive and tragic transgression of humanism in a state of emergency. Faced with great dangers, the authentic European needs to surpass and transgress certain principles. For the dangers threatening his people demand solutions that are as unthinkable as they are indispensable. As such, he transgresses not for the sake of pleasing a dictator or obeying such and such a dogma, but of serving his people’s survival, that is, in defending its future lineage and ancestral heritage. Over 2,400 years ago, Xenophon wrote in his Anabasis,[2] ‘A day will come when Zeus’ eagle serenely and mercilessly extends its claws.’ This is what surhumanism means.
In moments of supreme tragedy, man grants himself divine powers, attending to that which inspires and exceeds him. According to the Pythagorean tradition, he becomes ‘the ear of the gods’.
(see liberty; Promethean; techno-science)
- ↑ Yvan Blot (b. 1948) has served in the European Parliament on behalf of the Front National. He has also been the President of the Club de l’Horloge, a far Right think tank founded in 1974 which was initially close to GRECE and the Nouvelle Droite. Its current President is Henry de Lesquen.
- ↑ Xenophon (c. 430 BCE-354 BCE) was a Greek historian and soldier. His Anabasis is the record of an expedition by the Greeks to capture the throne of the Persia.
