The Stand Up Philosophers

Read Time:12 Minute, 39 Second I had some time and I’ve revisited John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, a major work in classical liberal political philosophy.

Read Time:10 Minute, 50 Second Recently I’ve been reading up Georg Lukács major work: History and Class consciousness.

Read Time:4 Minute, 33 Second I haven’t been very actively on this site lately, I’ve been consumed by politics, the last refuge of the damned, so called because it makes so many people unhappy!

Read Time:6 Minute, 32 Second “The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd.” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Sisyphus is one of those figures from antiquity who seems to have survived his mythol…

Read Time:5 Minute, 50 Second I’ve recently reread The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus after God knows how many years.

Read Time:4 Minute, 15 Second I recently read On the Sufferings of the World, a philosophically pessimistic essay by Arthur Schopenhauer — the great German pessimist whose influence stretched all the way to Friedrich Nietzsche.

Read Time:2 Minute, 54 Second Did you know that everyone has got a twin, an identical twin, some have been lucky enough to have been born with them here on this version of planet Earth, yet others have them out there somewhere in the greater cosmos, away…

Read Time:6 Minute, 54 Second There is a familiar claim in religion: God created the world.

Read Time:6 Minute, 41 Second There is a long-standing assumption at the heart of religion: that man is the creation, and God the creator.

Read Time:4 Minute, 38 Second Everyone, everywhere, all at once… I’d like you to imagine for just a moment that you are a Four dimensional being, able to travel not just in the familiar three dimensions of space such as up and down, left and right, back a…

Read Time:4 Minute, 8 Second I’ve been reading Ludwig Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity since Christmas last year.