Portraits of Nietzsche
Numerous artistic renderings of Nietzsche have captured him from beautiful, evocative perspectives. Click on each to enlarge: Your Thoughts?
View ArticleAre We Atheists Because We Have Terrible Fathers?
In what appears to be a serious bit of ad hoc armchair psychology hackwork, Paul Vitz has a book called Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism in which he applies psychoanalytic theories to...
View ArticleNietzsche’s Intrinsic Values For Assessing Moralities
Now that I have more time to blog regularly, I intend to finally follow through on my plan from the summer to blog about Nietzsche every Saturday. So hopefully this post will in retrospect be seen as...
View ArticleFrom Christian College Student to Atheist Online Philosophy Teacher (An...
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 I appeared on the radio show Atheists Talk on KTNF AM 950, the Progressive Voice of Minnesota. You can listen to the archived show entitled “Accessible Philosophy for...
View ArticleChristians as Immoralists
Nietzsche provocatively labels himself an “immoralist”. This is something gleefully seized upon by theists who absurdly think that the logical result of atheism is a total rejection of all morality....
View ArticleNietzsche the Dogsitter
By Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. (H/T: Kris.) If you go to the original page and click the red button in the lower right corner of your screen, Nietzsche has more to say. And last year a hilarious...
View ArticleJust Why Is The Abyss Gazing At You?
Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil section 146 writes, “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks...
View ArticleWhich Motive Worsens A Bad Action More: Desire or Anger?
Marcus Aurelius argues that a moral wrongdoing done from desire is worse than one done from anger because it's less "manly" to be mastered by pleasure than driven by anger (which he compares instead to...
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Explore philosophy with a former professor in live, personalized, interactive, small group, video-conference philosophy classes.
View ArticleWhy ‘The Last Jedi’ Made Sense (Spoilers Galore)
Having given my spoiler-free review of The Last Jedi, it’s time to break down the movie bit by bit into what I thought it was all about and what I liked and didn’t like. As I have encountered...
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