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…
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Friedrich Nietzsche – The Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit
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…
The Unique Philosophy of Thomas Carlyle
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
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…
The Eternal Recurrence (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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…
Do We Have Free Will? Carl Jung – Aion
We humans seem quite convinced that we are capable of making our own conscious rational choices. We do not really question this capability and we are quite certain that…
Ronald Laing – The Divided Self
In his book The Divided Self, Ronald Laing argued that there is a tension within most individuals between two personas: the one that is our true authentic self…
Friedrich Nietzsche; Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part 2: the Importance of Chaos)
Nietzsche warned us against the abyss of the last man, a society in which creativity, originality and different opinions would be discouraged…
Carl Jung – The Red Book; the Craziest Book ever Written? (part 2: Overcoming the Temptation of the Devil, but also of God)
Although connecting with one’s soul is important, it is not an easy project. According to Carl Jung this is the case because there are a few temptations that might…
Ernest Becker & Joseph Campbell -Man’s Tragic Destiny
According to Ernest Becker modern man finds himself in a problematic situation. It can be argued that we have become too ‘smart’ or that our societies have become too…
