Philosophers on Chocolate

'Will to Power' is a name of a chocolate-flavoured protein bar, which promises to "help you get in touch with your inner Übermensch."

- by Matt Qvortrup

That the shortish and somewhat plump Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) should be associated with a bodybuilders' food supplement perhaps stretches credulity. But the fact that it is chocolate flavoured would have appealed to the moustachioed philosopher. He clearly loved the stuff, and even urges readers of Ecce Homo to "start the day with chocolate" (p.66).

Chocophillia manifests itself in another philosophical classic too. In Albert Camus' novel