Philosophy

October 5, 2022

Wretched is the Mind

Montaigne: We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concerns for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when ourselves shall be no more. Wretched is the...

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May 7, 2018

I want to peel back the lid on nihilism

Nihilism: a philosophy based in nothingness and eternity. [highlight]Most people see the world in binary categories. They believe that there is either an inherent moral good that we must all obey, or there are no rules and life is pointless anarchy. Nihilism argues for a middle path: we lack inherent...

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