There was a time when philosophy was alive. Not alive in the sterile sense of textbooks, nor in the polite murmurings of classrooms where students rehearse the words of long-dead thinkers. Alive like fire. Alive like a question that tears open your ...
“Who gets to tell the story decides who becomes the hero, and who is forgotten.” Stories are more than entertainment. They are the frameworks through which societies define morality, identity, and power. From ancient myths to modern historical na ...
The ancient Greeks didn’t just create myths to entertain; they built entire worlds where gods behaved like us—only louder, brighter, and far more extreme. Their gods weren’t the cold, perfect ideals of some later religions. They were messy. They fel ...
Death has always been the quiet shadow walking a step behind us. We rarely think about it during the rush of daily life, but every so often—at a funeral, in the wake of an illness, or in the stillness of the night—it steps forward, reminding us that ...
The phrase “aesthetic evil” sounds almost like a contradiction in terms. Evil is meant to repel, to disgust, to haunt our sense of rightness. Beauty, on the other hand, draws us in—it soothes, excites, or elevates. Yet time and again, we find oursel ...
In a world choked with content — push notifications, AI summaries, podcast episodes uploaded faster than we can forget them — silence has become suspicious. We expect every subject to be searchable, every question answered, every phenomenon charted, ...
We’ve all flirted with the idea. Immortality. Living forever. Never aging, never dying, stretching time like an endless ribbon unraveling into the cosmos. It’s a notion as old as thought itself—whispered by the gods of myth, chased by alchemists, fe ...
There are few thinkers in the history of philosophy who have so violently stirred the soul, so savagely disrupted the moral foundations of civilization, and yet, so tragically lived and died in the isolation of misunderstood genius as Friedrich Niet ...
