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A Long Lost Letter From Your Innate Creative Self
You are created by two human beings making love through the beat of their bodies. For nine months you are a tiny organism feeding onto a chord that connects you to your mother's womb. Then you pass through the tunnel that separates you from your mother's body and into an […]
The Philosophical Morality of the 1%
Peter Singer is arguably one of the most influential philosophers alive today – he has published over one hundred academic articles, dozens of books, and was recently named a “Companion of the Order of Australia,” one of Australia’s highest honors. While Singer has an extensive moral code extending over a […]
5 Most Common Regrets of the Dying
It is very rare for HE to repost content from other websites, but this one cannot afford to be missed for originality's sake. Bronnie Ware spent her life working with elderly people who were close to death. In this thought-provoking piece, she pieces together the most common regrets of the […]
Schopenhauer’s Big Mistake: The Pleasure of Ephemeral Satisfaction
This is a response to an article posted earlier this week concerning Arthur Schopenhauer’s dismal theory on the life’s futility. In short, he postulated that man is in constant struggle to achieve certain things, only to have fleeting moments of satisfaction upon achieving them. Thus life is an endless cycle […]
Through Insanity to Deliverance
It was sometime in early January 2010 during a beautiful winter’s day in Amsterdam. The snow filled the streets and the sky above and since it was early in the morning the whole city was asleep; the whole city with the exception of one soul: mine. I was so awake […]
The Universe As Will: Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy challenges our conviction that life is inherently good. Life, Schopenhauer argues, is actually inherently bad. We may occasionally have good moments, but those are brief exceptions to the rule of otherwise constant suffering. While Schopenhauer certainly isn’t the most fun philosopher, his ideas do warrant a close […]
Stop Dieting
If you are a breathing, functioning human being, you’ve probably realized by now that our senses control us. Perhaps what I am about to reveal is a product of my own bias as a budding art historian, yet I believe that the sense of sight is the most unique in […]
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