Modern Age Philosophy

Are Your Ideals Just a Waste of Time?

“He who cannot find the way to his ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.” -Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil…

Jun 4 • Joshua Stevens

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May 2026

The Only Writing Goal That Actually Matters

Being a professional writer is always challenging.

May 7 • Joshua Stevens

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April 2026

If God is Dead, Why Can’t We Let Him Go?

“God is dead; but given the ways of men, perhaps for millennia to come there will be caves in which his shadow will be shown.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Apr 3 • Joshua Stevens

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March 2026

How to Stop Morally Shaming Ourselves

“The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.”Modern Age Philosophy is a…

Mar 26 • Joshua Stevens

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The One Thing Needed to Achieve Greatness

“Greatness and its contemplator: The noblest effect of greatness is that it gives the contemplator a power of vision that magnifies and embellishes.” …

Mar 11 • Joshua Stevens

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February 2026

Provider and Protector - My Will to Power - Part 2

In a previous post, I was trying to find my meaning in life, despite all of my accomplishments and successes in life so far.

Feb 18 • Joshua Stevens

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When Do We Give Our Emotions Too Much Gravity and Weight?

A Cautionary Tale

Feb 4 • Joshua Stevens

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January 2026

The Denial of Touch and the Dread It Brings

“One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her.

Jan 22 • Joshua Stevens

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HOW TO LOVE CLASS STRUCTURE

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Jan 9 • Joshua Stevens

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December 2025

Can Jesters Rule Kings?

Does a person need to have a title such as king or CEO in order to have power?

Dec 27, 2025 • Joshua Stevens

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Unreturned Love and Existential Dread

Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 60 Seconds

Dec 16, 2025 • Joshua Stevens

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The Sorrows of Young Werther: A Manifesto

Why Werther?

Dec 10, 2025 • Joshua Stevens

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