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In a previous article I have listed the top 5 scariest philosophers of all time. This list was based on the extend in which these philosophers succeeded in making us feel insecure of our own existence. Luckily, there are also some more positive and encouraging philosophers out there, although they sometimes appear to be the…
Joseph Campbell observed that myths serve an important role as a bridge to the unconscious. Although myths are not true in the usual way in which the term is used, they are true in a different way.
Unconscious forces are a double edge sword. On the one hand, if they are not integrated, they will have an overwhelming power over the ego and thereby limit our ‘free will’. On the other…
In his book Walden Henry David Thoreau shared his philosophical insights and why he disliked society and the materialism that has infected society throughout.
Previously I have written an article listing the 5 scariest/spookiest philosophers of all time. Arthur Schopenhauer, with his unique, elaborated, but scary philosophy earned a…
Philosophers often try to come up with answers to some of the most important questions. Such as: what is the meaning of life and what…
What do a camel, a child, and a lion have in common? Not so much. They are, however, all three a phase of spiritual transformation…
With his book Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle was ahead of his time in a philosophical sense. With his unique philosophy Thomas Carlyle was a pioneer of existentialist philosophy, in the way that he…
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave can be found in Plato’s book The Republic. Plato used the allegory of the cave to indicate that the reality which we humans perceive to be real is only a projection…
This idea is one of the most important, but also one of the most complicated, ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. He called it the eternal recurrence or the eternal return…