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…
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Category: Philosophy
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…
Let’s take a stroll down philosophical lane, where two ancient thinkers, Parmenides and Heraclitus, faced off in what can only be described as the ultimate…
Nietzsche, Absurdism, and the Power of Living Authentically In my October of Nietzsche series, we’ve arrived at perhaps his most controversial statement: “God is dead.”…