The Doctrine of Flux
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
What is God?
In order to answer that question, we’d best take a look at the revolutionary work, ideas and metaphysics of the Swiss Psychiatrist and father of analytical psychology Carl Gustav Jung. Continue Reading
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
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
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
Love your life and get a better one!
What the greatest minds of antiquity through to modernity have always told us is that before we can change anything for the better, we must first not only accept the Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
The Fragility of Potential: Reflections on Nietzsche’s Acorn
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
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
My Personal Transcendentalism.
Full disclosure, I’m not an Atheist, I did dabble with Atheism once when I was a young adolescent, but the devastating beauty of the world and its inherent perfection overwhelmed Continue Reading
Exploring the differences between Religion and Philosophy
Philosophy and religion are distinct disciplines, yet they often intersect and share common themes leading many thinkers to wonder where philosophy ends and religion begins, in other words what are Continue Reading
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
Generation X: The Lazy Generation!
In response to an internet comment in which someone derided Generation X as ‘the Lazy Generation.’ I’m a member of Generation X, those people born roughly between 1965 and Continue Reading
Contemplations on Space
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