"The price of being you": What authenticity costs and why it's worth it (How to be your true self and find your purpose)
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"The price of being you": What authenticity costs and why it's worth it (How to be your true self and find your purpose)

I'm really excited to tell you about my new book. "The price of being you". It is my most intimate project to date and the result of a long, personal journey and intensive research in the fields of science and philosophy. The long road to authenticity The idea for this book was born during a phase in my personal...

The modern creation process
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The modern creation process

Technological progress has made it possible for us to pass on our written works without any great risk. However, progress is not all good. To get information about self-publishing, we often turn to the internet, sometimes Google, sometimes YouTube, depending on where we find the answers we want. However, if you spend a while researching these topics,...

The Shadows of Progress: Rousseau's Critique of Modernity in the Arts and Sciences

The Shadows of Progress: Rousseau's Critique of Modernity in the Arts and Sciences

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a luminary of Enlightenment thought, was paradoxically one of its harshest critics, particularly with regard to the influence of the arts and sciences on society. In his "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts" (1750), Rousseau put forward the provocative thesis that while these developments advanced knowledge and civilization, they simultaneously led to moral corruption and...

Freedom for all: Rousseau's vision of natural emancipation

Freedom for all: Rousseau's vision of natural emancipation

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher of the Enlightenment whose ideas influenced the French Revolution, revolutionized our understanding of freedom and oppression with his profound statement: "Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains. This sentence, which he formulated in his ground-breaking work "The Social Contract", invites us to critically examine the constraints that...

Rosa Mayreder: Fame of feminist philosophy and plea for the rationality of women

Rosa Mayreder: Fame of feminist philosophy and plea for the rationality of women

Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938) is one of the most important figures in the history of feminist thought and social criticism. Born in Vienna, Austria, Mayreder's life was characterized by her tireless striving for equality, her profound philosophical investigations and her critical examination of the prevailing gender norms of her time. As a writer, philosopher and one of the first...

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Who he was and what he taught us

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Who he was and what he taught us

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a seminal figure in German philosophy. His work forms a critical bridge between the ideas of his predecessors such as Immanuel Kant and the later developments of German idealism, particularly in the philosophies of Schelling and Hegel. Born in Rammenau, Saxony, in 1762, Fichte began his intellectual journey in the pastoral...

J. G. Fichte's philosophy and its problems

J. G. Fichte's philosophy and its problems

While the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte was groundbreaking and influential, it also harbored a number of challenges and critiques that have generated considerable debate in the philosophical community. These "problems" or critiques of Fichte's work mainly center around his theories of self-consciousness, his political ideas, and the complex, often impenetrable...