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
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 and complex machines without an 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
There’s no such thing as entropy free lunch
What is the difference between a living organism and a chair? Well a chair can maintain its state of equilibrium without the need for any help from its environment. Continue Reading
Relax we’re all going to die…
The biggest curse to befall mankind is the sure and certain knowledge that one day we will all die. This knowing, this understanding can cast a long shadow over a Continue Reading
The Technique of Naturalistic Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a technique used to for many reasons such as to improve mental health and wellbeing and to help one think more clearly. One definition of mindfulness from the Continue Reading
Falling in love with the Absurd!
Hot on the heels of my article called ‘Happy Nihilism’ first published in the West Wales Chronicle and now on ‘The Stand-up Philosophers’ site I accidentally found a branch of philosophical thought Continue Reading
The Trump Card of Modern Nihilism – Entropy
Entropy is as fundamental a law of physics as the fundamental forces of nature, that being: Strong and Weak Nuclear forces, Electromagnetism and Gravity. It is the motive force Continue Reading
What is Entropy?
This article is a preliminary for The Trump Card of Modern Nihilism – Entropy The word entropy is Greek for ‘inside transformation’ which is why it makes sense in thermodynamics, Continue Reading
The Commonality of Struggle
Part One: Everybody’s got it rough! One thing that we’ve all got in common with each other, whether we live in a high tech, modern city or the lowest Continue Reading