The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to… — Julian Young Brain Copy Share Image
It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and… — Julian Young Affection Copy Share Image
I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other… — Julian Young Academic Copy Share Image
In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are… — Julian Young Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone… — Julian Young Creative life Copy Share Image
Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its… — Julian Young Art Copy Share Image
“He sank more and more into apathy; little interested him apart from dolls and other children’s toys. He still spoke occasionally, but… — Julian Young Good place Copy Share Image
The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense… — Julian Young Appearance Copy Share Image
