by The New Agora | Jan 15, 2023 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com Why Life Is War and How to Triumph by Gary Z. McGee “War is the father of all.” ~Heraclitus Nothing comes without a fight. All life is a struggle. The muscle must strain to become stronger. A poem must do battle with...
by The New Agora | Jan 11, 2023 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com 5 Signs You May Be a Positive Deviant “To be a philosopher is precisely not to be a person who never deviates from a single doctrine but to have a history of change.” ~Raymond Guess What does it mean to be a positive...
by The New Agora | Dec 30, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Blackbelt in Badassery “Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons. Because if we are going to be forced to suffer, we might as well learn how to suffer well.”...
by The New Agora | Dec 17, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Art of Animism: The Frog, The Duck, and The Fox “A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.” ~Martin Heidegger You are a multifaceted animal. All humans are. You...
by The New Agora | Dec 12, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Disturber of the Peace by Gary Z. McGee “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.” ~Spinoza The job of the philosopher has always been to upset the settled mind,...