
Simon Lea
Simon holds a PhD in Philosophy and is the co-founder of the Albert Camus Society. Over the past twenty years he has worked helping to develop public interest in philosophy, philosophical literature, and theatre. His areas of special interest include Camus, Nietzsche, existentialism, absurdism, and mythopoesis.
Articles by Simon Lea

In The Gay Science, Nietzsche talks about the death of God. What did he really mean by this?

Epicurus reframed pleasure as the absence of pain, and fear as needless. Learn about the tetraphrmakos, the antidote Epicurus proposed to the four great worries of life.
Epicurus reframed pleasure as the absence of pain, and fear as needless. Learn about the tetraphrmakos, the antidote Epicurus proposed to the four great worries of life.

Nietzsche took Socrates’ final words as proof he hated life; what if Socrates was making a joke Nietzsche didn’t get?
Nietzsche took Socrates’ final words as proof he hated life; what if Socrates was making a joke Nietzsche didn’t get?

Jean-Paul Sartre dramatized the dirty hands problem in 1948 with his play Dirty Hands. In response, Albert Camus staged The Just Assassins in 1949.
Jean-Paul Sartre dramatized the dirty hands problem in 1948 with his play Dirty Hands. In response, Albert Camus staged The Just Assassins in 1949.

Can God require us to do something morally wrong? This is the subject of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.
Can God require us to do something morally wrong? This is the subject of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.

Pascal’s Wager is not intended to prove the existence of God, but that a lack of evidence cannot support belief or a lack of belief.

Camus’s story, “Jonas or the Artist at Work,” ends with the unveiling of a mysterious painting. What does this ending mean?
Camus’s story, “Jonas or the Artist at Work,” ends with the unveiling of a mysterious painting. What does this ending mean?

Nietzsche considered himself to be ahead of his time, so ahead of his time that perhaps anyone capable of understanding him is yet to be born.

The absurd is a technical philosophical term. Camus’s account often confuses people because they fail to see how he made it his own.
The absurd is a technical philosophical term. Camus’s account often confuses people because they fail to see how he made it his own.