by Ric Vatner | Jul 1, 2023 | From the Editor to You
Into each life some rain must fall. Shadow in the Flame was a personal project I started in 2009. It was a time of tremendous upheaval in my life and it had been that way for a couple of years. I was alone with four children to bring up. All the friends and advisors I...
by Ric Vatner | May 9, 2023 | Bullying and Discrimination, Featured Post, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Moral Dilemmas, Philosophy in Daily Life, Western Philosophy
Have you ever had a problem with bullies or a bully? I tend to associate bullies with school, because that was where I first met them, but some people meet them in the army, at work, in a volunteer organisation or even at home. In fact, you can meet them everywhere...
by Ric Vatner | Oct 4, 2010 | Featured Post, Nietzsche, Philosophy in Daily Life, The Man – A Philosophical Novel, Western Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche Chapter 3 of The Man draws strongly on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, certainly one of the greatest philosophical writers of the nineteenth century and one of my personal favourites. So before I embark on the analysis of chapter 3 I thought...
by Ric Vatner | Sep 1, 2010 | Breaking Up, Featured Post, Love and Relationship, The Man – A Philosophical Novel, Western Philosophy
Updated March 28 2023 I received the following question in the comments section of the article entitled “The Philosophy of Breaking Up” and I felt it deserved a more prominent and considered reply. However, I am acutely aware of my own shortcomings in some aspects of...
by Ric Vatner | Jul 22, 2010 | Featured Post, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Moral Dilemmas, Science and Philosophy
Updated 3rd April 2022 Your browser does not support the video tag. I wrote this article 12 years before the CoVid Pandemic. How safe is it to revive dormant microbes, viruses or bacteria? 2009 Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from the...
