HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 36 articles in category 'Philosophy'. The sleep deprivation of the woke Dr Nietzsche will see you now. Posted on UTC 2022-07-31 10:03 Words: 3,352; reading time: 15 minutes Over the waterfall Avoiding the rending pain of re-enactment. Posted on UTC 2020-03-02 12:52 Words: 476; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for August Quote: Arthur Schopenhauer Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Image: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness. Posted on UTC 2019-08-01 07:32 Words: 774; reading time: 3 minutes Matter and light Clearing away legacy thinking about colour. Posted on UTC 2019-07-19 12:22 Words: 2,068; reading time: 9 minutes Blasphemy redux The unpleasant face of secular piety. Posted on UTC 2018-11-06 16:23 Words: 1,407; reading time: 6 minutes Lottery wins Coping with divine rejection – a sufferer writes. Posted on UTC 2018-11-04 10:47 Words: 1,290; reading time: 5 minutes 5 May 1818: Marxmas The 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Still crazy after all these years. Posted on UTC 2018-05-02 06:03 Words: 5,175; reading time: 23 minutes A Christmas Carol revisited The time travel subtleties of Dickens' remarkable classic. Posted on UTC 2017-12-24 11:15 Words: 2,805; reading time: 12 minutes Who's afraid of Immanuel Kant? 230 years of the Critique of Pure Reason Posted on UTC 2017-04-23 16:38 Words: 648; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for December 2016 Quote: Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality. Image: Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione. Posted on UTC 2016-12-01 01:02 Words: 381; reading time: 1 minute Rolling noiselessly through the void A meditation upon Saint Lucy's day, data adjusted. Posted on UTC 2016-12-21 10:14 Words: 319; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for October Quote: René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation III. Image: Edward Hopper, Automat. Posted on UTC 2016-10-01 01:02 Words: 167; reading time: 1 minute Brian Cox: the zombie staggers on Back in your box, Jean-Jacques! Posted on UTC 2016-10-10 09:37 Words: 634; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Marianne Hem Eriksen, Doors to the dead; T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton. Image: Martinus Rørbye, Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested. Posted on UTC 2016-09-01 01:02 Words: 391; reading time: 1 minute The fine art of wonderment The Vincent van Gogh guide to Platonic astonishment. Posted on UTC 2016-06-22 11:22 Words: 2,494; reading time: 11 minutes In search of lost timelessness That midnight feeling. Posted on UTC 2016-05-10 09:47 Words: 1,482; reading time: 6 minutes Quote and image of the month for March Quote: Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind. Image: Albert Edelfelt, Good Friends, Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt. Posted on UTC 2016-03-01 01:02 Words: 177; reading time: 1 minute Lenten thoughts, newly assembled As Christians come to the end of Lent, a period of self-denial and reflection, we ask the question: is it good not to spend money? Posted on UTC 2016-03-18 19:17 Words: 1,023; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and image of the month for February Quote: Fink et al., The Oasis of Happiness: Toward an Ontology of Play. Image: Benjamin Williams Leader, February Fill Dyke. Posted on UTC 2016-02-01 01:02 Words: 315; reading time: 1 minute Nathan's rings Lessing's Nathan, not called 'the Wise' for nothing. Posted on UTC 2016-01-18 16:14 Words: 925; reading time: 4 minutes The dismal science Still guessing after all these years. Posted on UTC 2016-01-06 16:04 Words: 66; reading time: 1 minute Souvenirs Which is real, the souvenir or the memory? Posted on UTC 2016-01-03 20:02 Words: 129; reading time: 1 minute Rockers do it better Stylish exits by those two rockers, Lemmy Kilmister and Arthur Schopenhauer. They'll be back! Posted on UTC 2016-01-03 15:21 Words: 859; reading time: 3 minutes Quote and image of the month for December Quote: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Image: Modesto Urgell e Inglada, La vuelta del entierro/Returning from the burial. Posted on UTC 2015-12-01 01:02 Words: 174; reading time: 1 minute Close shaves of the Scholastic kind We use Alexander's sword to cut the Gordian knot of William of Occam's non-existent razor. Posted on UTC 2015-12-14 07:18 Words: 1,140; reading time: 5 minutes Engaging God: God help us! After the atrocities in Paris, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, 'engages God' on a walk. What have we done to deserve this? Posted on UTC 2015-11-22 08:09 Words: 873; reading time: 3 minutes Enlightenment redux Brendan O'Neill calls on us to fight for the Enlightenment. Don't bother: it's dead and gone. Posted on UTC 2015-11-19 13:53 Words: 5,442; reading time: 24 minutes Jean-Jacques Rousseau's NBFF Rousseau befriends an extremely rich autocrat who wants to use mathematical skills to control the world. Posted on UTC 2015-11-04 09:00 Words: 124; reading time: 1 minute Mars will now say a few words The God of War speaks on the impending Armistice Day, 11.11.2015 Posted on UTC 2015-11-03 10:37 Words: 575; reading time: 2 minutes Fanatics: the good and the bad Jean-Jacques Rousseau's good fanatic: let's see how that worked out. Posted on UTC 2015-10-24 10:44 Words: 1,908; reading time: 8 minutes Troubling the living stream Easter 1916: The stony heart of fanaticism as seen by W.B. Yeats. Posted on UTC 2015-10-19 07:11 Words: 1,742; reading time: 7 minutes Nietzsche's birthday Friedrich Nietzsche would have been 171 today, so let's dig out one or two of his undeservedly neglected poems to celebrate the occasion. Posted on UTC 2015-10-15 09:03 Words: 415; reading time: 1 minute Rousseau in Nature He's on the stagger still, this time in two Danish universities. [corrected 17.10.2015] Posted on UTC 2015-10-15 14:12 Words: 447; reading time: 2 minutes Rousseau staggers on Latest sightings of this website's favourite zombie. Some people seem quite shocked. Posted on UTC 2015-10-11 14:15 Words: 132; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Blaise Pascal, Pensées sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets. Image: Hubble, the Pillars of Creation. Posted on UTC 2015-09-01 01:02 Words: 237; reading time: 1 minute Bye bye, democracy. Hello, general will. We seem to be reading more and more these days about the limitations of democracy and the need to take decisions for the common good. All this can only mean one thing: the zombie has awakened and is walking abroad once more. Its name? Jean-Jacques Rousseau. … Posted on UTC 2015-09-28 13:24 Words: 3,260; reading time: 14 minutes
