Philosophy

Nietzsche and Taoism on Human and Non-Human Nature: Though arising from different cultural traditions and times, Nietzsche and the Chinese teaching of Taoism share strikingly similar views on the nature of man and humanity's relationship with the natural world.

Self-Alienation: The individual character of a human being is fixed and unalterable. Self-alienation is the condition of ignorance or denial of the true nature of one's character, and is the source of the most wretched form of loneliness.

Music As Expression of Will:  A look at Arthur Schopenhauer's metaphysics of music and how this theory opposes the prevailing egocentric subjectivism of modern thought.

Existentialist Nihilism:  The distinction between passive nihilism (fatalism) and active nihilism (existentialism), identified through understanding how nothingness can become somethingness.

Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath’: A Gloss on Heavy Metal’s Originary Song: Nicola Masciandaro philosophically explores the first true heavy metal song which provided the foundation for traditional compositional/conceptual theory in the genre.

No Utopia: A brief look at two contemporary utopian philosophers and why their ideas fail in the vast realm of life.

Hard Determinism vs. Free-Will:  Neither is the victor of truth in the explanation of our actions, though each position plays a role through definitions of character and circumstance.

Theology and human knowledge of God: How far have we come in our quest to identify a confirmation of the existence of a God since the Medieval formulations?

Against Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism disregards the necessity of suffering in our lives.