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Emil Cioran was a Romanian-French philosopher, essayist, and aphorist who has written many books on a variety of topics including philosophy, history, and literature. Despite the brevity of his essays, Continue Reading
Plato’s Apology of Socrates is one of the most significant texts in Western philosophy. The work is a record of the trial and defense of Socrates, who was charged with Continue Reading
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the result of a combination of factors, including economic, political, and social conditions, as well as the leadership of key figures like Vladimir Lenin Continue Reading
Plato (428 – 348BC) is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions have had a lasting impact on the development of Western Continue Reading
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who is known for his criticism of traditional values, including morality and religion. His philosophy is centred on the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves Continue Reading
The following quote is the famous passage that seeded the famous base and superstructure model in Marxian theory. “The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic Continue Reading
When answering this question modern mystics rarely if ever pay any attention to the material world when making the claim that ‘we’re all one thing.’ They tend to consider the Continue Reading
I want you to imagine briefly, for a few moments if you will, how it feels to do the most menial work that you can imagine, whether that’s washing dishes Continue Reading
The working class are not ‘Woke,’ which is supposed to be ‘alert to injustice,’ on account of the fact that they don’t need to be, having experienced much more discrimination Continue Reading
In everyday non-philosophical parlance, when we speak about a self we are generally referring to an individual. When we are speaking about selves, we are talking about individuals that are Continue Reading
As the years go by; so do people… How many people have you come to have known since you came into this world after your birth? And how many of Continue Reading
Pretty soon in the UK we’ll see the arrival of motorcars that know the speed limit and will warn you not to exceed it, eventually these will be replaced by Continue Reading
I’ve been waiting for roughly ten weeks to write this piece, the result of a recent accident in which I broke my wrist, causing a permanent disability. It wasn’t the Continue Reading
Within the entertaining world that is Greek Mythology, there is of course the great classic of Homer’s Odyssey. The story focuses on the titular protagonist, Odysseus, Greek hero of the Continue Reading
The idea that the world belongs to the human race is not a new one; in the Holy Bible, book of Genesis, it explicitly states: Then God said, “Let Continue Reading
‘Negate to liberate’ is the motto of the happy nihilist! Most people seeking the meaning of life never stop to consider that perhaps there never was one to begin with. Continue Reading
Experience… Just stay in the present moment and you’ll realise by direct awareness that experience is not episodic. To those practitioners paying mindful attention to the present, they will soon Continue Reading
We’ve all had those moments when without warning we meet the gaze of a random stranger and time seems to stop. Without so much as a word they empty their Continue Reading