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LATEST ARTICLES ( 57 )

• Sorrento and the Neapolitan Riviera: Thoughts on Friendship

  

  I visited Sorrento in May of this year for the second time, after a 16-year interval. It seemed more crowded than before, but just as enchanting (October was a... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Nietzsche: The Antichrist Or the Cordelia of Christianity?

  “I am one thing, my writings are another.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo“Whatever I create and how much I love it ― soon I have to oppose it…” Nietzsche, Thus Spoke... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Madness and Music

  

  I recently went to a most beautiful concert of Schumann’s music on February 6 at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment wa... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Praying for Our Forests

  On BBC Radio 3, I recently heard someone say: “Forest is not a place but a state of mind”. Here are some other quotes:“The grove is the centre of their whole... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Last Salute

  Stanisław’s life journey ended in a Polish psychogeriatric unit. According to his son Thomas, this was the best place for him. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Three Poems About Love

  May is a month of love and I would like to celebrate it with three of my poems, written several years ago. Der Augen-Blick The moment is a rapture of two selves... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Orwellian Poland: An Interview with Eva Cybulska

  Why did you decide to leave Poland?I wanted to be free; free in the choice of my profession, in my choice of travel, in what I read, do, and most of all in... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• They Died for Principles, in Defiance of Convictions

  “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” Nietzsche, Human, All Too HumanThe attack on Charlie Hebdo’s journalists on the 7th January was... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Edith Piaf: A Chanteuse of Love and Sorrow

  Despite great biographical interest, much of Piaf's life remains shrouded in mystery. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72,... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Elephants, Consciousness and the Thomson’s Gazelle

  

  Some years ago, when I was in Kenya, I observed a scene that changed forever my views on elephants’ consciousness. My companions and I were staying at the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Thoroughly Schopenhauerian Heroine

  

  “Dying is certainly to be regarded as the real aim of life; at the moment of dying, everything is decided, which through the whole course of life was only... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Es Muss Sein - It Must Be

  For Roger, music was everything. Well, almost. Until four years ago he had hardly known love and bodily passions. Having grown up in times of sexual secrecy... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• On the Phenomenon of Uniqueness

  written by Eric PhippsIt is said that in between existing stars, there is an interstellar gas. It consists mainly of Hydrogen and Helium, but also in some cases... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• In Nietzsche’s Footsteps: Rapallo and the Ligurian Coast

  

  A Journey to the Dark Bottom of the Sea“Still is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it harbours sportive monsters.” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Of the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Ibsen - Part One

  

  Ghosts: The Return of the DeadAs a dramatic poet, Ibsen stands next to Shakespeare and ancient Greek tragedians. His unique gift to particularise universals is... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Briefest Definition

  An earlier version has been published in The Psychiatric Bulletin in 1996, and then in a collection of stories Old Trees Die Standing in 2006.At the time we wer... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• In Nietzsche’s Footsteps: Rome

  

  In May of 1883, Nietzsche was staying in lodgings on the Piazza Barberini in Rome, overlooking the famous ‘Triton’ fountain sculpted by Lorenzo Bernini. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Moment

  written by Eric PhippsIt has been said that after a long period of spiritual struggle and searching, the Buddha sat down under a Bodhi tree and experienced a... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Maria Callas: Celebrating the Birthday of the Greatest Diva of All Time

  I remember how many years ago BBC Radio 3 celebrated Maria Callas' anniversary with a whole week of reminiscences, highlighted with recordings of her music. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Bidding Farewell

  'Oh, how much I like my office on a morning like this' I thought to myself as I opened the door to a spacious and airy room. Situated at the back of the hospita... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY