Happy Nihilism, Nietzsche, Self Creation as the Meaning of Life.
Let’s begin by stating the obvious, Nihilism is a philosophical position in which there is no such thing as a metaphysic. What I mean by this, is that most nihilists Continue Reading
Happy Hedonism, The Genius of Epicurus – death, happiness and atoms!
Epicurus, born in 341 BC, was a man ahead of his time. His thoughts on happiness, friendship, and the nature of reality continue to resonate today. Epicurus was an ancient Greek Continue Reading
The reason why Nietzsche laughed at the weaklings…
“I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.” Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century German philosopher, is known for his provocative and sometimes enigmatic Continue Reading
What is the meaning of life?
Following on from our previous podcast in which we talked about Nihilism, Existentialism and Absurdism we now take the opposite view that the meaning of life is not only findable Continue Reading
Dreams and Atoms
“In a dream, there is no presence of atoms; only images.” So what I thought during a walk days ago, but this passive thought intrigued me. It prompted philosophical Continue Reading
A Pondering into the Nature of Experience
Philosophy is a fascinating mode of human thought. It penetrates into all aspects of existence, transcending rational inquiries about the fundamentals of the world and venturing into the very nature Continue Reading
The Illusion of the Soul
Within the realms of idealist philosophy, religious belief and the traditions of the globe, the concept of the soul has been around for a long, long time. The soul is Continue Reading
How to beat the fear of death and dying!
I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s at about the age of 7, I asked my father what happened after we died. He went quiet Continue Reading
Getting over the fear of failure – Part 1 – Acceptance
Getting over the fear of failure is a process that requires patience, self-reflection, and practice. Here are some strategies that can help: Firstly, we can recognise that failure is Continue Reading
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself!
When Nietzsche wrote, “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself,” he was expressing the importance of individual freedom and self-determination. Nietzsche was a German Continue Reading
Seek Power, Not Happiness!
Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the “will to power” is a central idea in his philosophy, which states that the basic drive behind all human behaviour is the desire for power Continue Reading
Beauty, ugliness and entropy
Continuing on again from my last article, we focused on the aphorism “Beautiful and Ugly”written in Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche, now we follow on the next aphorism which Continue Reading
What’s the difference between Optimistic Nihilism, Existential Nihilism, Existentialism, Nihilism vs. Existentialism and Absurdism?
Optimistic Nihilism, Existential Nihilism, Existentialism, Nihilism vs. Existentialism and Absurdism, what’s the difference? It can be bewildering, especially as these are all philosophical concepts that have been debated and discussed Continue Reading
The millennia long philosophical war
We all know that philosophy has been around for a long time boasting a proud rich history dating back thousands of years. And from those thousands of years ago were Continue Reading
Why do enlightened people say that we are one with everything?
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
POLITICIANS, THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE WILL TO POWER
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
What is the self really?
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
To the human race, this universe is not yours…
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