In order to understand this sentence of Jesus, (but which could also have been written by Nietzsche) it is first necessary to detach oneself, at least for a moment, from the idea that Jesus was the God that Paul constructed from him, but to imagine…

"Aber irgendwie legst du es auch darauf an". This phrase has been hitting me regularly for over 40 years and each time it hits like a 9 millimeter bullet almost to the heart. Not fatal but painful. They fired you? There's a hatestorm going on…

Jesus of Nazareth was a Cynic. There is no doubt about that at all. And the reason I mention him so often is that he was the only Cynic to have a significant number of disciples. It is precisely because hardly any of his students…

Paul taught the fear to do, suffer or tolerate evil. This fear is still the basis of all rulership today. Without this fear there would be no racism, no states, no patriarchy. Cynics fear no sin no hubris. Embrace every opportunity of power that comes…

For Cynics, as for Romantics, especially Novalis, truth is to be found just as much in the infinite universe as in our infinite interior. In his incomplete novel, "The Disciples at Sais" he shows different ways to approach the truth of our nature. The cynical…

If that were true, then we would be hedonists. But Epicurus' hedonism was the countermovement to eudaimonic ethics in ancient Greece. Not eudaemonia, but desire would be the greatest goal of cynics. The devil is in the details The devil - and I mean this…

Heraclitus is considered to be the first philosopher of the West at all. And even ancient Cynics regarded him as the first of theirs. Rightly so, as I shall show. Heraclitus sharply condemned Homer's pacifism, he demands that he should be expelled and beaten up.…

I come from a generation in which air travel was a luxury. On my first flight in a real commercial aircraft, I was already almost 40 years old. I was a little scared. When the stewardess explained the rules for emergencies, I listened attentively. Then…

This is the second part, which deals with the beautiful death. In the first part I showed that Epicurus, as often as he is quoted with his famous statement that death is none of our business, in truth does not free us from the fear…

Death is none of our business? -- You bet it is! Epicur wants us to do exactly what most people try to do anyway: not to think about death. It wouldn't really be any of our business. Cynics follow the exact opposite path. We want…