The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
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For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
In "The History of Western Philosophy," Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn't.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.
If you feel like you're missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Intrinsic motivation cannot be imposed on a team — but you can provide the right culture for it to flourish.
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
The infamous misogynist had some profound insights on romance.
A part of human nature needs to be challenged and feel strong. Today, we fulfill that need with "surrogate activities."
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche's legacy.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Traditionally, the long history of Japanese thought has not been viewed as “philosophy” — even by Japanese scholars. It’s time for a rethink.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.
Still, the author's main argument wasn't totally discredited.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.