Cultural Hegemony in Action
I’ve spent a good deal of time digesting Antonio Gramsci’s writings this year, the Italian marxist famous for his writing his Prison Notebooks while locked up in Mussolini’s prison. Areas Continue Reading
No Soul, No Problem: Feuerbach and the Myth of Mind–Body Dualism
The dualism of mind and body—the belief that we possess an incorporeal essence, a soul that is truly “us,” and that the body is merely a vessel or flesh-puppet animated Continue Reading
What is it like to be a mystic?
As many of my regular readers know, I’m a mystic, a Christian mystic, I’m not an orthodox believer, I’ve never been one for the crowd or the mob. I’ve always Continue Reading
Nietzsche and Morality
Nietzsche would no doubt consider me to be a weak man, a member of ‘the herd,’ because of my reluctance to cause harm, even to my enemies. Instead, I outsource Continue Reading
Those that we leave behind
I watched Jordan Peterson’s interview with Elon Musk recently and to be fair it was pretty interesting, but I was staggered to hear that one of Elon’s Friends, namely Larry Continue Reading
How to deal with the existential pain of… [insert here]
In choosing your pleasures, you also make an equal an opposite choice… I’ve never deliberately set out to make a mistake, but by God, have I made plenty, the burdens Continue Reading
The Timeless Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius – ‘Meditations’ Is it worth reading?
Have you ever wondered about the impact of Stoic philosophy on modern life or how such ancient wisdom could guide us through the complexities and challenges of today’s world? If Continue Reading
There is something at the core of our being that is universal and timeless.
It’s always been there, unchanging and aware, your sense of self has always been the same, it’s never changed. We come into the world with our characters fully formed. The Continue Reading
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
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
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?
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
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
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