Being at One
Being at One: Making a Home in Earth’s Commonwealth of Virtue, 2016 191,882 words Being at One is a comprehensive two-volume study of the...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 253 min read
Dante Alighieri - my books
My six-volume study of poet-philosopher Dante Alighieri: Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise. The Political Peace. Vol.1. Dante’s Sweet...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 234 min read
Rational Freedom and Transcendent Standards
I give this article by Terry Eagleton a strong recommendation. Where does culture come from? by Terry Eagleton I’ve been warning of a...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 15, 20237 min read
The Love That Transcends
I wrote this back in 2020 but filed it away for another day and promptly forgot it. I intended to expand the ideas here in light of the...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 20234 min read
The Social Credit Regime
The social credit system is coming in. By various means. Another acronym that people had better start deciphering – ESG. Environmental...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 20232 min read
Technocrats are Incompetents
Technocrats are Incompetents Recent years have seen a systematic erosion of democracy and constant denigration of democratic governance....
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Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 202318 min read
Against Blank Sheet Progressivism
Against the Year Zero Mindset and Reset A culture is rooted and organic, forged through time and experience and maintained by warm,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 202320 min read
Of Gods and Slaves
Reflections on my book from 2012 Of Gods and Gaia: Men as Gods Gambling with the Earth Ideas about body and soul, mind and consciousness,...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 24, 202350 min read
Thin Lizzy - Guide to the Albums
Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy is a rock band from Ireland, formed in Dublin in 1969, releasing twelve studio albums between 1971 and 1983. They...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 202347 min read
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
Jun 17, 202352 min read
The Politics of Being and Place
Being and Place I would like to write a short commentary on Being and Place, with the express intention of underlining the practical...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 11, 202329 min read
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley - Outlines
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley – Freedom, the Commons, and Spirit Reason Short outline INTRODUCTION Criticism of...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 10, 20235 min read
Reclaiming Conservatism
A conservatism which tells government – or any other collective entity - to stay out of the lives of individuals isn't conservatism at...
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Peter Critchley
May 24, 202320 min read
The Earth as a Common Treasury: Thoughts on Gerrard Winstanley
Gerrard Winstanley was born in Wigan, the next town to my home town of St Helens. His parents were married in Prescot, St Helens, which...
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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 13, 202328 min read
Liverpool Hot 100
Liverpool Hot 100 Liverpool Hot 100 - 100 songs from Liverpool "Liverpool is more than a place where music happens. Liverpool is a reason...
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Peter Critchley
May 10, 20238 min read
Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism - the Post-Liberal Case
Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...
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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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