The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of ...

Friedrich Nietzsche's famous quote, "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness," ...

The ancient Greeks believed that those who govern society must possess not only power but also wisdom and moral virtue. The ...

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Many movies have compelling opening sequences, but one incredible sci-fi movie seems to master the hooking audiences with its brilliant first scene.

Mensch meaning: You've probably met people who command respect without saying a word, whether you're in a high-stakes business deal or just trying to be a better neighbor. The desire for radical ...

Who was Nietzsche? Philosopher, psychologist, poet, madman, provocateur—these names orbit around him but never settle. He is the “strange German,” dismissed by some as the father of nihilism and ...

“Man is something that shall be overcome,” the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his 1883 classic Thus Spoke Zarathustra. “Man is a rope, tied between beast and superman—a rope over an ...