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“Five Young Kings Put Asleep by the Sword-Stroke''

The Will of the West Mercians: A Nietzschean Perspective on Old English Stoicism

Fought in 937 A.D., the famed Battle of Brunanburh (Bromborough, Wirral) was a decisive clash between King Æthelstan…

“Where Is the Young Warrior?”

Fate Demands the Highest Investment: A Nietzschean Perspective on Old English Stoicism

A Dark-Age Stoic classic written in the late 9th or early 10th century, the intensely melancholic Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer presents the earnest…

“A Man Must Conquer His Pride, Not Kill It”

The Eternal Returns: A Nietzschean Perspective on Old English Stoicism

Preserved in the Exeter Book and composed amidst the peak Viking-Age murk of the 9th or 10th century, The Seafarer…

Nietzsche's Etymology of Noble Morality

Part 1: Words Remember

A brief excursion into Nietzsche's Will-to-Power etymology, courtesy of his unusually essayistic On the Genealogy of Morality (Kaufmann translation).

In this short yet no less potent passage, the linguistic meaning of…

Philosophy of the Aristocratic Type

The Genealogy of Morals | Extract from the First Essay, Section 10. 

Section 10 of the First Essay represents the philosophical axis upon which the entire Genealogy provokes; the moment where Nietzsche's etymological archaeology crystallises…

Apollo & Dionysus: Music, Art, and the Birth of Tragedy

"We shall have gained much for the science of aesthetics," Nietzsche writes at the outset of his debut work, “when we have come to realise…that art owes…