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Peter Critchley
Feb 22, 20183 min read
Valuing What we Make
Valuing What we Make Why We Value What We Make As I’ve mentioned a few times over the years, this is my favourite text from the Bible:...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 22, 201815 min read
Enthusing the People
Enthusing the masses A long read (as usual). The bottom line concerns the need to enthuse and inspire the people, not stupefy them - 'all...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 21, 20189 min read
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble.
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble. IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, KNOW THAT IT HATED ME FIRST...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 15, 201819 min read
Reform and Reformation
OK, I’ve been embroiled in yet more pointless debates. Except that intervention here was important, to correct the arrant nonsense that...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 28, 201814 min read
The Imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma - In Praise of Ursula Le Guin
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma In Praise of Ursula Le Guin “I think hard times are coming, when we will be...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 25, 201819 min read
In The World of Waldo Williams
In the World of Waldo Williams Here is the world entire. One day, brotherhood will unite the families of Earth One day, the small will...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 24, 201810 min read
Good Government or Representative Government?
Good government or Representative Government? It's a false choice, I know, but there's a reason I put it this way - it makes an important...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 9, 201866 min read
My Favourite Christmas Songs
My Favourite Christmas songs - from my favourite time of year. It’s the 9th January now. But whilst the revelry of the festive season may...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 7, 201816 min read
Erasmus, a life devoted to reason and faith
‘I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.’ (Erasmus, as quoted in Erasmus (1970) by György Faludy, p. 197). I see...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 29, 201731 min read
Naïve Cynicism or Practical Idealism?
Naïve Cynicism or Practical Idealism? In Being at One, which I am hoping to issue soon, I write of history as an optical illusion. The...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 28, 201715 min read
A View Out of Dante - Aquinas on Fire in California
The photo is the fire behind the Saints Peter and Paul Residence Hall, St Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California A View Out of...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 27, 20178 min read
Practices Beyond Perceptions and Conceptions
I’m less and less interested in the views of individuals exchanged in ‘debates,’ the bulk of which are politically and ideologically...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 26, 20174 min read
The Document of Citizenship
The Document of Citizenship is held by all; all have a place on Earth. Pope Francis gives the lead, again. Text of Pope Francis’...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 26, 2017112 min read
Merry Christmas, Mr Critchley
On Sunday evening, Donald Trump declared himself victorious in the so-called “war on Christmas” "So-called war?" When is a war not a war?...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 23, 201725 min read
Marx, ecological rift and the social metabolic order
As someone who has studied Karl Marx in depth, I am sometimes challenged by certain 'Greens' to the effect that Marx has little to offer...
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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 11, 201727 min read
Metaphysical Recovery and Reconstruction
New Pioneers by Mark Henson Metaphysical Recovery and Reconstruction “What is to take the place of the soul- and life-destroying...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 201728 min read
Fighting Fires
Fighting Fires - in the Hills of California, and in the Hearts of Men Calling Dante – Fighting Fires in the Hills of California, and in...
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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
Dec 7, 201730 min read
Let us not speak of them, look and pass by
Day after day I wade through the self-perpetuating, self-consuming cycles of climate despair on Facebook. I try my best to ignore it,...
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