Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021
I need to comment on the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. I am a supporter of the Monarchy and value the existence of a...
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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
Apr 8, 202114 min read
Pushback Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart
I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in 'Unherd,' How the Left gave up on freedom: Today's progressives snigger at...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 7, 202134 min read
Editing the Endless Love on the Unending Road
Dante’s Politics of Love In 2016 I started to write on the internal music in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, under the title of Dante’s Sweet...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 6, 202117 min read
From the Dark Forest to the Eternal Rose - Editing Dante
Gustav Dore, Dante and Virgil gazing at heavens. "Into the yellow of the eternal Rose that slopes and stretches and diffuses fragrance of...
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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
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Dante Update
Dore, The souls of the just circling to form letters Update on my Dante book ‘Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 13, 20217 min read
Free Speech and Good Speech
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard I look, always,...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 13, 202114 min read
Observations on current controversies over Free Speech
Observations on Free Speech If you think a Twitter ban is Orwellian, then you really have been leading a charmed, privileged, and...
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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 24, 20219 min read
Dante and the Baptistry
I am noting the identification in some parts of the contemporary political culture of medievalism and Dante with white supremacy, far...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 18, 202110 min read
Free Speech
Some comments in light of recent events at the US Capitol. My view on this is broadly contained in this video, The Capitol Riot Explained...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 16, 20214 min read
La Question
The greatest album of all time is without any question Françoise Hardy’s sensuously sublime La Question. Recorded in 1971, the album...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202131 min read
Dante : Love and Justice over Fear and Hatred
Image: Martel on the vicissitudes of heredity: Dante and Beatrice hovering before Charles Martel, who stands within the Heaven of Venus,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202113 min read
Beyond Symptoms
It looks like the US finally found a US-backed coup that it didn't like. At least, I hope that enough Americans didn’t like it to finally...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Biblical truth?
I was once involved in a debate between atheists and theists. Unfortunately, it was that kind of debate in which the people with the...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 202117 min read
Make Orwell Fiction Again
The horn-wearing Q-shaman carrying a six-foot spear with an American stars and stripes flag tied just below the blade has been arrested....
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Peter Critchley
Jan 7, 202113 min read
Conspirituality: a Modern Distemper
‘Conspirituality’ refers to the over-lap between New Age / wellness culture and conspiracy culture. I would like to comment on issues...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20216 min read
Dante The Poet of Reality
More thoughts on Dante. I am working and thinking hard on the book that is in the process of emergence. There is a lot of reading to do,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20219 min read
Dante the Christian Humanist
Dante incurred great intellectual risks in expressing himself in concrete terms comprehensible to uneducated minds, but these risks had...
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