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“If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who Continue Reading
I watched Jordan Peterson’s interview with Elon Musk recently and to be fair it was pretty interesting, but I was staggered to hear that one of Elon’s Friends, namely Larry Continue Reading
The Great Chain of Being was once a dominant concept that provided a vertically ranked hierarchical structure to the universe, with God at the top, followed by angels, humans, Continue Reading
In choosing your pleasures, you also make an equal an opposite choice… I’ve never deliberately set out to make a mistake, but by God, have I made plenty, the burdens Continue Reading
Sir Kier Rodney Starmer may be feeling quite pleased with himself given the recent arrests of perhaps a 1000 people who it is alleged inadvertently stirred up hate online or Continue Reading
Life is unapologetic, it’s ever expanding, always conquering new frontiers, life in short never feels ashamed of itself, as the great German philosopher Nietzsche once said, life is a Will Continue Reading
I’m a mystic, I’m a Christian mystic, and for as long as I’ve been aware of it, I’ve always been bothered by the problem of suffering. That the world Continue Reading
Have you ever wondered about the impact of Stoic philosophy on modern life or how such ancient wisdom could guide us through the complexities and challenges of today’s world? If Continue Reading
“I have learned from my own experience that the most powerful factor, as well as the one that is more difficult to handle, is the shadow. Everything negative in human Continue Reading
It’s always been there, unchanging and aware, your sense of self has always been the same, it’s never changed. We come into the world with our characters fully formed. The Continue Reading
Advice for young men. If I could go back in time, like many of the plot of a good sci-fi romcom to meet my younger self and give Continue Reading
Let’s begin by stating the obvious, life is a psychic experience, not just the random happenstance of a deterministic universe unfolding according to physical law. There’s something else going on Continue Reading
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Ephesus, in what is now Turkey, around 535-475 BCE. At Standupphilosophers, we embrace his doctrine of flux: Heraclitus believed that everything Continue Reading
In order to answer that question, we’d best take a look at the revolutionary work, ideas and metaphysics of the Swiss Psychiatrist and father of analytical psychology Carl Gustav Jung. Continue Reading
In a rugged, mountainous landscape, where the earth meets the sky, a solitary figure stands at the base of a towering peak. The mountain, majestic and imposing, Continue Reading
Crash Course Death Anxiety part 2 When you are young, the pain of mortality is incredibly severe, very often the thought of death and dying when you are Continue Reading
“Nietzsche’s Modern Manifesto” – Can his ideas still be applied to our world today? Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas, often provocative and challenging, continue to resonate in contemporary discourse, raising pertinent Continue Reading
What the greatest minds of antiquity through to modernity have always told us is that before we can change anything for the better, we must first not only accept the Continue Reading