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…

The whole world is your property, says the romantic and cynic Novalis: you own everything. The state will own everything, says the NWO-evangelist Klaus Schwab. You own nothing . You will rent everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3DhoLFO4s You own what you have a legal claim to, most say:…

Opportunists don't have the best reputation. They have no moral principles. They simply take advantage of every opportunity that comes their way without restraint or scruples. That's right, we work hard to live up to precisely this image of the opportunist, including overcoming our guilty…

Cynicism is closely related to the idea of the invisible hand, a metaphor for God, attributed to Adam Smith. This idea of capitalism stands for the self-realization of all people and is convinced that if people take care of their own business, then everything together…

Cynic ethics differs from modern ethical conceptions first by being a virtue ethics that knows only one goal: eudaimonia. Then it stands out from the other virtue ethics that emerged in antiquity in that it knows only one virtue: parrhesia. Can this path be convincing?…

When people hear the word "virtue," they think someone is trying to take the fun out of life. When they think of cynicism, they think of Diogenes, who allegedly lived in a barrel, destitute, and owned nothing. And "minimalism" is also associated by many with…

Nietzsche's famous formula of the will to might is often social Darwinistically misunderstood as the Hobbesian will to brutal ruthless egoism; and Nietzsche accordingly as a pioneer of German National Socialism. But his thinking is much more like that of us Cynics than like that…

Today, it is politically considered good form to be a cosmopolitan. Diogenes was a cynic and a cosmopolitan. He was even the first cosmopolitan, he coined the term. But Diogenes was anything but politically correct. When people asked in which Greek city-state he was a…

The most famous cynic of antiquity, Diogenes, did not just live in a barrel. He owned slaves, for example. And he himself felt into slavery. The ancient Greeks, even if they themselves were affected, did not seem to have had a very big problem with…