11 ways to banish anxiety and Live each day as a separate life.
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” ― Seneca This is a wonderful quote from a wonderful philosopher, variations of it have been Continue Reading
Merry Christmas from the Stand Up Philosophers 2017
Merry Christmas from my colleague (Epicurus of Albion) and I (Comicus Muo) to all of our august and noble readers from across the world. 2017 has been a good year Continue Reading
Giving Thanks
I’ve recently been struck by the fact that the noble Emperor Marcus Aurelius began his meditations by giving thanks. The first book ‘The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Debts and Lessons,’ Continue Reading
Seneca on Suffering, Wisdom and Adversity…
The meaning of life. As we’ve previously mentioned in other articles for there to be a meaning of life (as opposed to the meaning you may choose to give your Continue Reading
Seneca on the Happy Life.
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast – a mind that is placed beyond the Continue Reading
On Birth, Death, History and the Restoration to Non-Existence
Just like fire we have our kindling and our extinguishing If you’re looking for hard-hitting contemplations tugging on your sense of impending mortality then you’re in the Continue Reading
Use your privilege, a modern stoic concept…
“Nobody is born on purpose,” at least that’s what Morty said to Summer in my favourite contemporary cartoon series, and so it goes that nobody has any control over the Continue Reading
Life will get the bastards anyway – A modern Stoic concept
THE DEFINITION OF ‘LIFE WILL GET THE BASTARDS ANYWAY’ Let’s introduce the concept of ‘life will get the bastards anyway’ defined here by this simple statement: “Life will cause your Continue Reading
The audiences’ reaction to happy nihilism
The countenance of the audience on having read Comicus’ article ‘Happy Nihilism’
Philosophy Vs Religion
I sometimes get asked what the difference is between philosophy and religion. I can understand why people would ask this, after all many religions are quite philosophical in nature in Continue Reading
Life Philosophy – What is it and why should we care?
Some of you may have noticed the category ‘life philosophy’ on this site. I feel that it deserves clarification and explaining as to what it about. Life philosophy is personal Continue Reading
On dealing with Anxiety
The world is an incredibly complex place and can often be bewildering and frightening. Indeed it can be so complex and so chaotically wonderful that many of us can struggle Continue Reading
La Mettrie’s Machine Man
Just to clarify, We begin with Descartes’ dualistic Cartesian animal-machine idea (which was popular at the time) which viewed all animals, except humanity, as automatons, as complex machines without an immortal Continue Reading
We’re bringing sexy back, or why Seneca knew there’d be days like this…
During a recent chat with my good friend Epicurus of Albion, we both agreed that it should be the mission of this website and our goal as human beings to Continue Reading
What is the meaning of Life?
Philosophers, scientists and thinkers have for thousands of years pondered the big questions of existence, the biggest one of all being ‘what is the point of life?’ More correctly, it’s Continue Reading
Remembering La Mettrie the philosopher physician
Everyone who studies or has an interest in philosophy has heard of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx and modern philosophers too like Daniel Dennet. I like Continue Reading