A celebration of the Good Life, High Art, Human Excellence and Culture
Introduction I’ve been working on this article for some time now, here and there dipping into Historical materialism, the primary Marxist methodology to studying not just history, but the approach Continue Reading
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that life feels increasingly artificial, as if everything around us is more curated than real? In an age dominated by screens, media, and Continue Reading
Our focus is fame’s ancient precursor: kleos! And I’d like to explore it in some depth so I can set the tone of this article. Kleos is an ancient Greek Continue Reading
If we could sum up the essence of this article in one overarching sentiment, it would be captured by this quote from our favourite Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius: “Whatever the 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
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 Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic brilliance, we find a profound meditation on potential and its precarious nature: ‘The most wretched little animal can prevent the mightiest oak tree from coming into Continue Reading
Recently I’ve been revisiting Seneca’s Moral Epistles which are a letter collection of 124 letters addressed to his friend Lucilius. Among these letters, Letter VII, better known as ‘On Crowds’ has caught my Continue Reading
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin —Matthew 6:28-29 From this passage, Jesus Continue Reading
Buddhism is more than just a religion, it’s a philosophy of the mind that’s been offering profound insights since around 500BC—plenty of time for contemplating the mind! What I’d like Continue Reading
There’s an archetype I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now based on my own observations about how certain people behave that includes their beliefs, psychology etc. in regards Continue Reading
Crack open any neuroscience textbook and you’ll be taught about the processes of the brain and the relationships between sensory organs, neural activity, and even the arising of subjective Continue Reading
Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, responded to the news of a shipwreck and the loss of his belongings with a Stoic attitude, remarking that Fortune was advising him to be Continue Reading
If getting a happy, peaceful mind were simply distilled into a pill (without side effects), everyone would be on it— and the guy that patented it would be stinking rich! Continue Reading
Philosophy is a curious thing, able to touch upon areas thought untouchable. One such philosophy is existentialism, it stands as a compelling exploration of human existence, individual freedom, and the Continue Reading
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted Continue Reading
The state of grand meaning in this day and age can be encapsulated by one phrase ‘God is dead’, Nietzsche’s notorious proclamation rings like the doctor tasked to bear the Continue Reading
Since I read the Moral Letters to Lucilius by the Stoic philosopher Seneca a few years ago, there’s one excerpt I wish to share that’s been on my mind ever Continue Reading