Read deeply. Question everything.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ancient Philosophy
Plato's blueprint for a city ruled by philosopher-kings, complete with a cave, some shadows, and the audacious claim that justice beats injustice. Bring your ow...
Ancient Philosophy
The Roman emperor's private notes to himself, rediscovered as the world's oldest self-help book. Stoic advice, zero motivational posters.
Ethics
Aristotle on happiness as an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. The original work-life balance manual, minus the app.
Politics
A ruthlessly practical primer on grabbing and keeping power, delivered with a straight face. The genre of 'political science' was never the same after this litt...
Epistemology
Kant's 800-page attempt to fit all of metaphysics into a filing cabinet. Question your presuppositions, if you can stay awake for the answers.
Ethics
Nietzsche takes a hammer to traditional morality and discovers that the crisis of values tastes better than it sounds. Dangerously quotable, safely philosophica...
Ethics
A prophet descends from his mountain to announce the death of God and the coming of the overman. The Übermensch budgets.
Existentialism
Camus imagines a hero condemned to push a boulder uphill forever — and finds him happy anyway. One must imagine Elon shopping.
Existentialism
Meursault, a man so detached the sun does the heavy lifting. Existentialism in a heatwave, with a trial you won't forget.
Metaphysics
Heidegger's unfinished monument to the question of Being, in which the meaning of life is apparently right on schedule. Dasein checks its watch.