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...
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...
Updated 5-4-23 Reader Comments on Shadow in the Flame I value all our reader comments and I know that many of you read them as much as you do the articles. They all contribute a tremendous amount towards making this blog the community it has become. However, from time...
The road into town was long, straight, and dusty. The kind of road you knew would lead to nowhere special and the reward for arriving was less than his lowest expectations. Good. He spat the word out though there was no one to hear it. First order of business, he...
Panic Attack The man sat in his car; he fought the rising wave of panic. He knew this feeling very well. It had accompanied him through the whole saga. It woke him at night. It gave him hot flushes when everyone else was cold. It ambushed him before he went into a...
The Man – A Philosophical Novel The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines Chapter 3 Revised 15th September 2010 As he walked into town the Man passed the Aboriginal settlement. The houses, seemingly frozen in the process of being...
