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LATEST ARTICLES ( 57 )

• In Nietzsche’s Footsteps, Part 3

  

  Tribschen Idyll“As Zarathustra was climbing the mountain, he thought on the way of the many lonely wanderings he had undertaken since his youth, and how many... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Waltz of Returns and Departures

  There is no return, and there is only the return, which inevitably moves on towards departure, like the Valse Brillante, like the Polonaise...How is it... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• To Doubt is to Exist: A Review of Honest Doubt

  

  Honest Doubt: the History of Epic Struggle was originally broadcast in twenty 15-minute episodes in May/June 2012 by BBC Radio 4. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Exposing a Plagiarist

  According to the Oxford Dictionary, plagiarism is “the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one’s own, the ideas or the expression of the... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Nocturnal Visitor

  This true story is taken from a collection of stories written by E M Cybulska entitled Old Trees Die Standing.Ruby was one of those determined spirits, who woul... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Free Will and Corruptible Reason

  

  Much ink has been spilt in philosophical writings on the question of ‘free will’. Free will has often been confused with free reason, free choice and free... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Frédéric Chopin: A Birthday Tribute

  

  It’s Chopin’s birthday today! Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849 Born to a Polish mother and a French father in the village of Żelazowa... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Hamlet and the Unbearable Loneliness of Existence

  

  “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (Hamlet, I. ii) “Now I am alone.” (II, ii) Music to accompany article: Hamlet... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Celebrating Schubert's Birthday

  

  It’s Schubert’s birthday today!Music to accompany article: Die schöne Müllerin by SchubertThis most lovable of composers died tragically in 1828 at the age of... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Peace at Christmas?

  Music to accompany the poem: Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo PärtA lava of faceless faceswith eyes fixed,mouths half-open,ears glued to mobile phones,pours into a... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• In Nietzsche’s Footsteps, Part 2

  

  Music to accompany article: The Seasons: June, Barcarolle by TchaikovskyI recently revisited Venice and was once again struck by its beauty and by its decadence. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• In Nietzsche’s Footsteps, Part 1

  

  Music to accompany article: Symphony No. 3, 4th Movement “Midnight Song” by MahlerI have travelled in Nietzsche’s footsteps for the last 15 years or so. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique: Crossing the Acheron

  

  “Vex thee not, Charon; It is so willed there where is power to do That which is willed; and farther question not.” Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  

  An Anniversary RemembranceMusic to accompany article: St Matthew Passion: Erbarme dich, mein Gott by J.S. BachFriedrich Nietzsche died on 25 August 1900, at... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Death in Venice

  

  A Schopenhauerian InterpretationMusic to accompany article: Symphony No. 5, Adagietto by MahlerSchopenhauer was one of Thomas Mann’s chief philosophical... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• In Praise of Walking

  

  “Only thoughts reached by walking have value.” Nietzsche, Twilight of the IdolsMusic to accompany article: Der Wanderer, D.493 by SchubertWalking and thinking... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Friendship and Aloneness

  “I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY