A Culture of Discipline
Scrolling aimlessly through Twitter (a terrible time and life wasting habit), a question on exercise and fitness caught my eye. How do we...
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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
Nov 16, 202217 min read
Passing on the Virtues
The Triumph of the Virtues (also known as Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue) by Andrea Mantegna, 1502. Passing on the...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 18, 20223 min read
Rootless Fruitless
I’d like to quote from and briefly comment on this recent article by Paul Kingsnorth, The West has lost its roots The less moored our...
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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
Aug 7, 202228 min read
Ethics - A Guide to My Ethical Writings
Ethics Outlines to my ethical writings by way of a guide. Titles, links, abstracts, and tables of contents. The Ecology of Good (2020)...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 14, 202215 min read
The Revolution that is Eating Itself
The Revolution that is Eating Itself I will begin with this scathing review of Douglas Murray's "The War on the West" by Patrick Deneen....
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Peter Critchley
Jun 21, 202213 min read
The Catholic underpinnings of Rational Freedom
The Catholic Underpinnings of Rational Freedom “The Politics of Hell By Urban Hannon https://thejosias.com/2022/06/16/the-politics-of-hel...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 23, 20224 min read
The Education of Desire
The Education of Desire I wrote these short passages in response to a perceptive tweet on Twitter from an ecologist. This was the tweet:...
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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
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
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 12, 20213 min read
Educating the Whole Person
I went to an appalling secondary school, the Mount Olympus of what would later be called a ‘bog standard comprehensive.’ That dismissive...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 20212 min read
Know Thy Enemy
The founder of BLM became a fraudulent brand after buying a $ 1.4 million home Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA...
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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
Aug 17, 201919 min read
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 11, 201711 min read
Character and the Common Good
Alasdair MacIntyre The Common Good as Common Project Alasdair MacIntyre: “Common Goods, Frequent Evils.” Keynote by Alasdair MacIntyre at...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 7, 20175 min read
Kant, MacIntyre, Virtue and the Enlightenment project
"If my thesis is correct, Kant was right": Revisiting Kant's Role within MacIntyre's Critique of the Enlightenment Project by Kelvin...
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Peter Critchley
May 4, 20172 min read
Toleration a virtue?
Toleration is the ‘virtue’ most valued in an age that is shy of moral judgement. If there is no objective moral foundation for the good,...
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