Avoiding Traps and Snares - Words with Meaning
Finally, at long last, and not before time, there are signs, here and there, that parts of “the Left” are beginning to see identity...
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Peter Critchley
May 3, 202251 min read
Metaphysical Reconstruction - Foundations, Reason, and Reality
The fundamental question of the age Can a society sustain itself if its members aren’t willing to nurture the roots that gave birth to it...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 202215 min read
Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart
Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 30, 202121 min read
The Motivational Economy
The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 27, 202115 min read
In Defence of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
In Defence of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West By Jordan B. Cooper This...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 13, 20216 min read
There are No Facts, Only Interpretations
‘There are no facts, only interpretations.’ (Nietzsche). Scientist friends have discovered Nietzsche. Whereas in the past, he could be...
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Peter Critchley
May 21, 20214 min read
Politics is much more difficult than Physics
Physicist Albert Einstein was asked: "why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom...
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Peter Critchley
May 13, 202110 min read
To Live in Truth and Love
To live in truth and in love. Jordan Peterson pulls Christianity out of Sam Harris' reductionist hat There are plenty of people on...
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Peter Critchley
May 2, 20217 min read
The Corruption of Science, Politics, and Ethics
How science has been corrupted The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise Matthew Crawford This recently...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 9, 20215 min read
To be God's partners in Creation
“Rovelli is convinced we must work together. “Co-operation is better than competition,” he says. “Physics has reinforced the fact that we...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 20212 min read
Something More
I'm a 'something more' person. I wouldn't want to say exactly what that more is, and give the impression of certainty and concreteness...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 30, 20216 min read
Transcendent Standards or a world of pure contingency and arbitrariness
“Listen to me. Postmodernism will be appropriated by reactionary conservatives to destabilize commonly-held notions of evidence....
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Peter Critchley
Jan 1, 202110 min read
Existential Self and Society
I feel the need to make a little comment on a new book which argues that the critiques of Marx and Kierkegaard are complementary rather...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202014 min read
Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light “I wish, that I could really tell you, All the things that happened to me And all that I have seen, A world full of...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 21, 202024 min read
The Slenderest Knowledge of the Highest Things
The Slenderest Knowledge of the Highest Things 'Those who seek the direct road to truth', Descartes argued, 'should not bother with any...
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Peter Critchley
May 9, 20208 min read
First Principles and Firm Foundations
I have just read a friend saying this in response to the Planet of the Humans documentary: ‘It is very difficult to counteract the harm...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 20195 min read
Science and questions of value, significance, and meaning
Science and questions of value, significance, and meaning Curtis White notes the excitement when Stephen Hawking seemed to deny the...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 19, 201918 min read
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 13, 201918 min read
Dialectic and Disclosure
Disclosing Truth The photograph is of the sculpture of Pythagoras in the Incarnation Portal of the west façade of Chartres Cathedral....
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Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 201960 min read
Wittgenstein, Bewitchment, and Silence
The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...
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