Subscribe“Great tits huh? Yes, but what does it mean?”
Last year I watched Zombie Strippers with a few friends and was amused by its extravagant combination of nudity, gore and philosophy. Some might consider this a pretentious B-movie, but that assumes that the philosophical content of this flick are mere sound bites and not a coherent [...]
The Horizon of Reason
Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception
Tag: Nietzsche
Zombie Strippers
The rat race
After several months of essay writing I finally have some time to reflect. I do enjoy studying the MBA, but sometimes it does makes me wonder why I do this. When I studied philosophy I decided to put my career on hold. Now that I am finishing this MBA I feel like I need to [...]
Know Thyself
One’s own is well hidden for one’s
own; and of all treasure troves, one’s
own is the last to be excavated . . .
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra
Don't Stare into the Abyss
About fifteen years ago my friends and I discussed one of Nietzsche’s famous aphorisms in from Beyond Good and Evil:
“146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” (Source: Project Gutenberg)
This almost mystical utterance [...]
Exsanguinated philosophy
In one of the university texts I have been reading recently, the author often writes that a certain philosopher is being ‘over-sanguine’ in his approach. I thought this was a strange word to use as I found out it means ‘passionate’.
Can a philosopher be over passionate? I don’t think this can be the case. Philosophy [...]
Academic Philosophy
I have been studying philosophy at university level for eight years now. See my previous Blog, The Philosohy Race, on why I have been so slow
At the odd occasion, however, I doubt whether I should actually continue studying. Studying a university degree and having a full time job is quite a task, which [...]
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