Friedrich Nietzsche

Who knew that Edgar Allan Poe was given to a foster family at age two, that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was raised by an uncle, that Friedrich Nietzsche, Re(...)

“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it, you will hav(...)

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It’s easy to judge with hindsight but even by the standards of 1978, the BBC’s decision to call a series about great living philosophers Men of Ideas,(...)

There comes a point in your life, if you’re lucky enough, when you realise your brain is like a tanker turning in the ocean compared with the jet ski (...)

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Friedrich Nietzsche has a long rap sheet. Elitist. Anti-democratic. Unchristian. But in one respect at least – cue the sound of the smallest violin in(...)

New atheists attract a lot of hostility but, if you’re not one yourself, consider how infuriating it must be to see church worship on the rise interna(...)

A few weeks ago, this column explored that ancient puzzle “How do you know you actually exist?”, one of the defining questions of philosophy. In doin(...)