The Over-Soul Summary (6.5/10)
Defining the Soul The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
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Who was Al-Kindi?
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as…
The Arguments of ‘The Singularity is Near’
The Law of Accelerating Returns The Singularity is near is a documentary that features Ray Kurzweil. It tells us about a future that is post biological – when human beings transcend their natural limitations and…
A Guide To The Good Life Summary (7.6/10)
A Guide to The Good Life is about the practice of Stoicism from a more academic lens. The author, Irvine, is a philosophy professor who was not exposed to Stoicism until much later in his academic career.
The 5 Productivity Tips That Stick
One thing about being an entrepreneur that is dramatically understated is the requirement for self-discipline. Experience has been a brutal but effective teacher though.
Learn to Say No
You have one asset (time) that can and should be considered the most valuable asset you will ever own. It’s the only asset that will never increase, but only decrease in quantity. And almost every single person you…
Fear and Trembling Summary (7.8/10)
Fear and Trembling was written by Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher who was a controversia
The Dialectic Purpose (Week 39 of Wisdom)
When one considers how ready are the forces of young men for discharge, one does not wonder at seeing them decide so uncritically and with so little selection for this or that cause: that which attracts them is the…
The Myth of Sisyphus: What is the Worst Punishment?
The Tricks of Sisyphus The Myth of Sisyphus* The myth of Sisyphus has become analogous to working futilely at an arduous task forever.
The Freedom in no Free Will
You cannot accuse someone of being dogmatic, because to do so you must be dogmatic yourself. When you accuse someone of extremism in their beliefs, it must be relative to a lack of extremism in your beliefs. But you…
Toxic People are Zombies
They are the Walking Dead, the White Walkers – brainless, but physically present, they march towards one goal, to convert every living thing in their path to their own ideology – or rather, the dominant ideology…
The Anatomy of Fear (Week 16 of Wisdom)
Alfred Adler was an Austrian psychologist, famous for discovering the “inferiority/superiority complex” and the effect of birth order on personality. But most importantly, Adler differed from his contemporaries,…