The Perennial Philosophy
I have organised my philosophical work around three core and recurring themes: Being and Place, Rational Freedom, and the Natural Law....
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Peter Critchley
May 22, 20236 min read
Love and Logic
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" Tagore I'd qualify on logic. It depends. Be careful of...
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Peter Critchley
May 20, 202329 min read
Metaphorics - Myth, Metaphysics, and Metaphor
Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...
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Peter Critchley
May 18, 202358 min read
Mythos and Logos - The Delusions of Rationalizing the Non-Rational
MYTHOS AND LOGOS - THE DELUSIONS OF RATIONALIZING THE NON-RATIONAL. "I've always preferred mythology over history because history is made...
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Peter Critchley
May 10, 20233 min read
Coming Back to Our Senses
Here and there, the penny is dropping - the world has drifted into unreality, and people are concerned to know what it will take to come...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 29, 202314 min read
Fraudulent Foucaultians
Create a problem where none exists, slice and dice humanity according to identity, divide society and turn people against one another,...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 28, 20236 min read
The Loss of Deep Problems
The Loss of Deep Problems The Certain and the Measurable as the End of Metaphysics and Spirituality “Some philosophers (or whatever you...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 31, 202317 min read
The Emptiness and Transience of Life
The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 16, 202228 min read
Reason, Freedom, and God
Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 202237 min read
Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise
Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise The fate of our times is characterised by rationalisation and intellectualisation and, above...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 7, 202233 min read
An Essay on Rational Freedom
An Essay on Rational Freedom A brief introduction to the conception of 'rational freedom' which is the organizing principle of my work....
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 202216 min read
Rational Freedom and Happiness in contemporary culture
In face of a movement which takes some of your own themes, reduces and relativizes them by way of arbitrary, self-chosen standards, and...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 6, 202221 min read
The Dark Ages to Come Have Been Here a Long While
The Dark Ages to Come Have Been Here a Long While The Dark Ages are already upon us and have been for some time. “This time however the...
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Peter Critchley
May 20, 202243 min read
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
Apr 11, 202244 min read
Being Essential, Essential Being
Being Essential, Essential Being I write as a philosopher who went out on a limb in the 1990s by arguing forthrightly for an essentialist...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202229 min read
When Naturalism Becomes an Inhumanism
Naturalism as an Inhumanism This essay consists of thoughts and observations incited by the reaction the following article inspired: What...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 5, 202117 min read
Democrats vs Autocrats
Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...
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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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