The Lost Art of Leisure
How we lost the Intrinsic to the Instrumental
The life of a peasant in the Middle Ages wasn’t [...]
An (Ancient) New Theory of Happiness
Why virtue is the key to happiness you've never thought about
What is happiness? It's a question so simple a 3-year-old [...]
Ressentiment: the World-Improving Poison
The archetypal modern emotion from Nietzsche to Oliver Anthony
There has never been more hate in the world than [...]
Comfort is the Enemy — Nietzsche’s Last Man
Nietzsche's Prophetic Nightmare of Modern Life
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those [...]
Addicted to Apocalypse
Why we have a psychological need for the end of the world
“the problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, [...]
Why Jung Hated Philosophers
The rampage against philosophers in Jung's letters
Neurosis addles the brains of every philosopher because he is [...]
Ego: A Defence
From Freud and Jung to the New Age Icarus
Ego is a bad word in our society. Unmoored from [...]
Dionysus vs. The Buddha
How Nietzschean spirituality offers a third way between enlightenment and selling out
This week’s instalment was prompted by a question from one [...]
Thomas Sowell – A Conflict of Visions
The Constrained and Unconstrained Visions
At the core of every moral code there is a [...]
Nietzsche: The Many Uses of the Gods
How the Ancient Greeks used their gods to stave off guilt
We are used to the association between the religious and [...]