Philosophical Dictionary

Learn how philosophers from ancient Persians to Marx and Nietzsche viewed intoxication. Learn about Herodotus's famous drunk-sober debate method, why Marx wrote Das Kapital during beer-soaked nights, and how thinkers like Huxley and Benjamin explored consciousness through psychedelics. Philosophy meets altered states.

In today's article we talk about ennui, heading to 19th century France with Charles Baudelaire, and 19th century Denmark with the first existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard.

Discover why Nietzsche would hate modern self-help culture. Learn the real meaning of the Übermensch, the Last Man, and "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Explore how we've turned radical philosophy into comfortable Instagram quotes and why that proves Nietzsche's point about cultural decline.

Discover how Plato, a pagan philosopher who died 400 years before Christ, became Christianity's unlikely intellectual godfather. Learn how Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Origen, and Augustine used Greek philosophy to shape Christian theology, creating a synthesis that still defines modern Christianity today.

Let's discuss rage bait by way of ancient Greek philosophy. Join us as we discuss rhetoric and logic, and how they both play a part in taking apart your most annoying online content.

We discuss Simone de Beauvoir's concept of objectification, its relationship to feminism, and what we learn from it in philosophy as a whole.