Regular Exercise As is the case with healthy nutrition, exercise also positively affects both your physical well-being and your mental well-being. For example, regular exercise has a beneficial influence on the prevention and course of depression, anxiety disorders and dementia. Furthermore, exercise promotes cognitive functioning, especially executive function (which includes planning, multi-tasking, concentration; the effect...
Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein and Virginia Woolf led parallel lives in 1930’s England. Although they probably never met, they had common friends and shared the same cultural atmosphere. There are many similarities in their approach to their crafts and to ordinary life and language. They both opposed ‘grand narratives’ and turned their attention to the details...
“You are what you eat”, is an old saying which expresses the link between well-being and nutrition. Since about a century, clear associations have been laid between dietary habits and physical well-being, such as the risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Besides physical well-being, mental well-being is affected by nutrition as well. Although this...
Stotan Philosophy “A Stotan is one who hardens, strengthens, toughens and beautifies the body by consistent habits and regular exercises, which are consciously and irrevocably made part of the life plan of the individual, as well as consciously determining that the mind will be cultivated upon such abstractions as purity, beauty and logic. Erudition, in...
Introduction The American cartoonist and writer Alison Bechdel and the four years older feminist philosopher Judith Butler have a lot in common. Both have dedicated their main works (‘Dykes to watch out for’ and ‘Gender Trouble’, respectively) to the subject of homosexuality and, either implicit or explicit, feminism. Where Butler takes the academic approach in...
A Continuation of the Enlightenment Tradition Introduction: This paper compares the views of two historical figures, Nietzsche and Emerson, on how the cultivation of self-reliance can not only be seen as a continuation of the Enlightenment, but as the foundation for our contemporary self-help movement as well. Firstly, the (somewhat practical) philosophy of Ralph Waldo...
Introduction This essay will illustrate how Freud’s views on art and aesthetics compare with Nietzsche’s views on this matter. By going through some of the great works of both of these historical figures, it will become clear which aspects of art can serve as a genuine palliative measure, if any. Firstly however, it is necessary...
This paper will compare Darwins view of the ‘persistent effects of the past’ with Friedrich Nietzsche’s view on this matter. Firstly, the similarities between Darwin and Nietzsche will be discussed. Secondly, light will be thrown upon the differences between these two historical figures regarding their ideas about the past. Finally, the conclusion will sum up...
Introduction This essay deliberately compares the philosopher Rousseau with the novelist Flaubert, because both of them turned against a certain movement and period while being completely absorbed in that period. Light will be thrown upon the views of both of these men regarding the idea of ‘historical progress’. The Death of Madame Bovary Flaubert’s groundbreaking...
Kant’s definition of Enlightenment The person who has the courage to use his or her own understanding without the guidance of another, is the enlightened person according to Kant. More specifically, Kant defined Enlightenment as ‘man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity’. The reasons for men’s immaturity are ‘laziness and cowardice’, aided by the dogmas and...
