Tag: nietzsche
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Day 422 of 1000: Philosophical Ideas in Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera on lightness and heaviness, and the aesthetics of life. Kierkegaard on the aesthetic vs ethical life.
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Day 416 of 1000: Kundera on the Heaviness of Life
Milan Kundera opens his celebrated novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being with an introduction to Nietzschen eternal recurrence. On choosing heaviness.
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Day 410 of 1000: Stories that Imprison vs. Stories that Free
Riffing off a Tara Brach podcast episode title, thinking about Hester Prynne’s big mistake and how it led to a good, if grief-filled, life.
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Day 406 of 1000: Art and Creative Differentiation
Nietzsche thought that a great person would creatively differentiate their existence rather than living with the herd. Deleuze applied this idea to art.
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Day 394 of 1000: The LImits of Explanation
I’m trying to explain using explanations why storytelling is better. Maybe I need to just tell stories.
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Day 389 of 1000: Living as the Main Character of Your Life
Developing my philosophy of protagonism, living as though you are the main character in an epic story.
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Day 388 of 1000: Nietzsche and the Artistic Model of Life
Nietzsche thought that aesthetic values were as important as moral in crafting a life. Where I’m going next in crafting my own life.
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Day 387 of 1000: Surrendering to Writing Solitude
Accepting that my life of solitude and writing is not only okay, but likely to bring me great joy.
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Day 382 of 1000: Finding the Inter-Human in Suffering
Levinas proposed that suffering can be a way to get in touch with the inter-human. Witnessing-suffering and being-witnessed-suffering.
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Day 360 of 1000: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and a Postmodern Presidency
Exploring how Nietzsche’s perspectivism relates to postmodernism, especially that practiced by the American right.
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Day 355 of 1000: The Textuality of Life
Nietzsche thought your life should be lived as literature, according to Alexander Nehamas. Life as a text to interpret.
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Day 347 of 1000: The Acorn of My Being
James Hillman on the soul’s purpose. Does my soul have a purpose, and have I left it behind?
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Day 341 of 1000: Affirming Abundance
I got a new rug cleaning machine today, to complement my four vacuum cleaners. Have I reached enough yet? Is this abundance?
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Day 331 of 1000: On Becoming a Primary Source
I don’t simply want to explain and reinterpret other people’s ideas. I want to develop and share my own independent philosophy.
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Day 329 of 1000: Optimistic, Pessimistic, or a Third Way?
Is Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return optimistic or pessimistic? Perhaps it is neither.
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Day 328 of 1000: Affirming a Chosen Midlife
Nietzschean ideas of affirmation instead of nihilism. Walking to win thoughts. Choosing not to do things.
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Day 319 of 1000: Positive Maladjustment
Reflecting on Dabrowski’s idea of positive maladjustment, and how Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are exemplars of that phenomenon.
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Day 274 of 1000: Cultivating the Excluding Instinct
Learning to exclude crowding and intrusive stimuli so as to live the vita contemplativa. Ideas from Han and Nietzsche.
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Day 261 of 1000: Hopefulness and concrete Goals
Nietzsche and Han on how hope turns our thoughts to concrete goals as a way of composing the story of the future.
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Day 173 of 1000: Inwardness on Thanksgiving day 2025
Starting from Kierkegaard’s idea of inwardness, reviewing Nietzsche and Jung with similar ideas, and then onto my matriarchal role.
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Day 139 of 1000: Skiing the slopes of existentialism
I’m undertaking a 1000-day reinvention project, blogging here daily to track my progress. In Thursday Thinker, I share a smart idea or theory. Earlier this week I was thinking about the self-help authors I’ve enjoyed in the past, because I wanted to do some copywork to help me figure out how to write advice that is approachable…
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Day 118 of 1000: Nietzsche’s rejection of stoicism
Nietzsche’s rejection of Stoicism and his version of amor fati vs the Stoics: eternal recurrence.