Philosophy

Summarizing Seneca’s Letters from A Stoic

"... an artist derives more pleasure from painting than from having completed a picture." - Seneca I’ve been meaning, for the longest...

Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt, before Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre

Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In fact, he was, in many ways, even celebrated as the founder of the...

On The Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran

I insist you find your bearings in less intense writers before plunging into the mental construct that is the philosophy (or...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...

On communicating freely: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

One of the things that we don’t consider we can change about ourselves is our ability to speak. Speaking to others is a skill we can...

On friendship: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca

This article is about one of the most thoughtful and down-to-earth books I’ve ever read. It’s a non-fiction book of short essays. It’s...

A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.” It’s a rare thing to find in a loyally-pessimistic writer the bridge...

The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran

There is no other writer so gifted to have diagnosed Time as Eternity’s disease and to have endured it as a means to verify Existence as...