Ascent of the West

The bottleneck is not capital, talent or technology. It is that we no longer have a moral case for our own ascent, so the people carrying it work under a cloud and the people funding it can’t say why it’s good. That case can be made.

The work argues one thing: that the good is ascent, that a morality can be judged by what it does to real people over time, and that a civilisation which believes this again starts building again.

What is here

• The Library: the books and papers, readable online.
• Make the Case: a sourced public record of the present paradigm’s failures.
• Resources: guides for understanding the present moment.

Who

Ascent of the West is led by Eric Niehaus, a founder and writer working on moral and political philosophy, in San Francisco. Much of the work here is drafted with AI from his ideas and notes; every book, paper and case entry says who wrote it and how far it has been reviewed.

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The show

One idea from the books, argued properly, every week. Coming soon; follow on X for the first episodes.