O God, Beast, Mystery; Come! — Human culture, since the dawn of humanity, has been kept alive by the flames of mythology. We frame ourselves as living in myth, and we play this out on a psychological level. We even form our societies based on these myths. Every society developed has done this. In philosophical terms…

“Virtue is that perfect good which is the complement of a happy life…” — Seneca — The Stoics posit that virtue is sufficient for a good life, and that all other things are indifferent — though they are split into preferred and non-preferred indifferents, such as housing (which is preferred) or homelessness (which is non-preferred). …

“It is in anguish that man gets the consciousness of his freedom…” — It has been posited by Jean-Paul Sartre that when a man realizes his own freedom, he experiences fear and anguish. And he doesn’t mean it in a normal sense of the word — he means it in a core, primal way. He seems to think that anguish is the core…

“Philosophy is like a locked castle with no doors and windows…” — It’s been said that philosophy is like a locked castle with no doors or windows, yet all the “doing” of philosophy happens inside this castle. How does one enter this proverbial castle of philosophy? How should one get started? …

Exploring Sartre’s Conception of Freedom — Jean-Paul Sartre was a monumental philosopher and prolific writer in the 20th century. He was one of the main thinkers that helped usher in the era of Existentialist thought as the dominant philosophical movement in the last century. William Barrett, in his book Irrational Man, mentions his philosophy by nature…

Fame in a World like This is Worthless — I went on a date with a woman from Bumble last week. We are both 30, and so we were talking about life paths and such, all those things you have conversations about as you get older to not waste each others’ time. She mentioned the desire to start an…

Being and Nothingness Issue №6 — In issue №5, we investigated the foundation of Being and determined that it is subjective. We have discovered two modes of Being — that of relativity and of passivity. We determined that in order to be, a thing cannot not be passive in its own creation. We have also said…

“To philosophize is at once to learn how to live and know how to die.” — Karl Jaspers — What do you think of when you think of philosophy? Do you think of it as a subject in school that was always a little out of touch? Do you think of it as a pointless, abstract study that renders no meaning in the lives of men? As useless folly? …

The Dialect of Existence — The true nature of reality is that of change. Everything is in flux; nature, society, how we behave in relation to those things. The sage-like philosopher Heraclitus, who was a source of inspiration for the Stoic school, held this sentiment as well; “All things are in process and nothing stays…