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…

The last man has not only killed God. He makes everything small, according to Nietzsche in Zarathustra. He himself becomes homo economicus, a screw, in the mechanistic understanding since the Enlightenment. The last strong countermovement against this dehumanization of humankind, which was triggered by the…

Romanticism has little to do with what most people imagine it to be today. Early Romanticism in particular was anything but " enthusiastic" and dreamy. "Gushers" were, on the contrary, even an enemy for the Romantics. Likewise, the Romantics did not want to return to…

As a result of Christian and post-Christian slave morality (Nietzsche) and socialist dreams, but also as a result of the domination interests of the states, egalitarianism is currently being propagated on an unprecedented scale. Discriminate, a neutral term until the 19th century, first experienced a…

One of the requirements of the client-centered approach of Carl Rogers is to accept messages from the client or the person you are talking to at all costs. Now, however, in everyday life, both in the U.S., as far as I know, but at least…

For me, Carl Rogers is one of the most important people of the 20th century, along with Paul Goodman. And indeed Carl Rogers is considered the most influential psychotherapist, even ahead of Sigmund Freud. His psychotherapy concept is essentially based on parrhersia. His insights can…

If you want to practice the virtue of parrhesia on your own without a fascilitator, the first step, of course, is to learn to listen to yourself acceptingly and to learn to overcome scruples. It's not about training skills that will make you a better…