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Nietzsche: The Will to Power
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Nietzsche: The Ascent of the Will

      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

Posted On : 19th May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Crash Course Death Anxiety part 2: Embrace Mortality, Finding Meaning in the Cycle of Life.

  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

Posted On : 15th May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Nietzsche’s Modern Manifesto

“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

Posted On : 10th May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Wisdom Loves a Warrior

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”     In Nietzsche’s magnum opus, ‘Thus Continue Reading

Posted On : 5th May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .
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Nietzsche’s Strong Man

  “The strong man, a man in whom the instincts characteristic of robust health are powerful, digests his deeds in just the same way that he digests his meals; he Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Looking for God – A Jungian Analysis

  One of the very fair critiques that I often hear from Atheists is that there’s no evidence for the existence of God in the material world, the Epicurean world Continue Reading

Posted On : 1st May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Looking for God?

One of the very fair critiques that I often hear from Atheists is that there’s no evidence for the existence of God in the material world, the Epicurean world of Continue Reading

Posted On : 1st May 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
Religion is Nihilism
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Nietzsche: Religion is Nihilism!

  “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” is a philosophical novel written by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1883. It follows the journey and teachings of the character Zarathustra, who presents his ideas Continue Reading

Posted On : 24th April 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
Was Nietzsche a Sociopath, or worse yet a Psychopath?
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Nietzsche: Active and Passive Nihilism explained:

Materialism has given us many of the good things in life that we now take for granted, such as not dying at a young age of preventable diseases, as well Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th April 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Stoicism vs the Crowd

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

Posted On : 8th April 2024 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Was Nietzsche a Sociopath, or worse yet a Psychopath?
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Sociopath or Not? Was Nietzsche a Sociopath?

  “Was Nietzsche a sociopath?”  This is a common charge directed at Nietzsche by those unfamiliar with his work along with accusations of antisemitism and so on.  To this day, Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th March 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The Buddha view of Desire

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

Posted On : 20th March 2024 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Psychology of Spaceman

I’ve been wanting to do this type of analysis for quite a long time, but I’ve never got around to it, but it has been a long-time goal for me Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th March 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Transduction, the neglected weapon of Naturalism

  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

Posted On : 4th March 2024 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
Rishi Sunak, Rochdale by Election Results and the myth of Secular Politics
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The Myth of Secular Politics

I’ve been watching the recent fallout from the Rochdale By-Election with interest this week as our Hindu Prime Minister addressed the nation partially in response to the election of a Continue Reading

Posted On : 3rd March 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .
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Understanding the Ubermensch or Superman.

In the annals of philosophy, few concepts evoke as much intrigue and controversy as Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch, or Superman. Born out of Nietzsche’s magnum opus, ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra,’ the Übermensch Continue Reading

Posted On : 23rd February 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
Unlocking Nietzsche's Wisdom How Beauty Empowers Us and Undermines the Elite Agenda
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Unlocking Nietzsche’s Wisdom How Beauty Empowers Us and Undermines the Elite Agenda

  Today we’re going to be talking about Nietzsche’s view of beauty, high art, and ugliness and the ramifications that it holds for us who either want to live a Continue Reading

Posted On : 20th February 2024 Published By : Comicus Muo
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A less encumbered philosopher

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

Posted On : 14th February 2024 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion

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