Ever wonder why you suddenly feel the need to buy those trendy shoes everyone at the PTA meeting is wearing? Or why your mood takes…
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Category: Philosophy
“Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss.” —Friedrich Nietzsche Today’s thought prompt is a heavy one, and that’s just…
Ever wonder why people from different parts of the world have such strikingly different customs, behaviors, and even temperaments? According to Voltaire, it’s not some…
Picture this: you’re sitting in the middle of a forest, a meadow, the woods, or even just your back deck. The sun is warm, birds…
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.…
Type of Book: Philosophical Treatise Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, written in the 4th century BCE, is one of the foundational texts of Western moral philosophy. Named…
Transcendentalism was a hot topic in my high school literature class. My English teacher casually threw around names like Emerson and Thoreau, not realizing that…
“Are We All Just Geckos in a Bigger Cage?” The other night, as I was watching Neo, the kids’ gecko, I couldn’t help but marvel…
Next up in my October of Nietzsche is his concept of Amor Fati, or the “radical love of fate.” You might think Nietzsche is all…
Ever find yourself wishing the world would just get it together? Maybe if your job wasn’t so stressful, your relationships were simpler, or the universe…