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Goodbye Brian Cant
Goodbye Brian Cant 19 June 2017 was a sad day indeed. It was the day we lost the wonderful Brian Cant, a figure who was much loved by...
Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 201711 min read
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Climate Mobilization and Leap
Climate Mobilization and Leap Embracing Need for 'WWII Style Mobilization,' California Set to Go Big on Climate...
Peter Critchley
Jun 24, 20174 min read
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The Climate Commitment
The Climate Commitment The Need for Common Agreement and Action on Climate: Comments on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord...
Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201727 min read
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Paddy McAloon - pop's great lost voice
I guess this world needs its dreamers … Paddy McAloon – ‘pop’s great lost voice’. Well I never forgot him. I’ve just looked up the chart...
Peter Critchley
Jun 17, 20178 min read
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The Peace of a Good God
The Peace of a Good God Or, the Hope that transcends Constant Battles ‘This week, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H. R. McMaster and...
Peter Critchley
Jun 13, 201735 min read
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Earth to Trump ...
Earth to Trump ... and all he stands for ... Trump vs. Planet Earth In pulling out of the Paris climate deal, Trump showed America is a...
Peter Critchley
Jun 4, 201711 min read
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If Reason were enough ....
Immanuel Kant - if reason were enough ... I’ve always thought that Kant has needed a gifted philosophical vulgarizer. He has so much to...
Peter Critchley
May 31, 201715 min read
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Inspiring Environmental Action
Beyond the roots of human inaction: Fostering collective effort toward ecosystem conservation Inspiring action on climate change...
Peter Critchley
May 31, 201711 min read
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By Wisdom and Labour
Beautiful words from Jonathan Kent, with which I wholeheartedly agree: "There is a dividing line in our society. On one side are people...
Peter Critchley
May 26, 20176 min read
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Being Who You Are
Being Who You Are: Beyond Naming and Framing ‘When you realise that eternity is right here now, that it is in your possibility to...
Peter Critchley
May 18, 201721 min read
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Rousseau, Natural Law and Rational Freedom
Natural Law and Rational Freedom "The crisis is approaching, and we are on the edge of a revolution. Who can answer for your fate? What...
Peter Critchley
May 16, 2017133 min read
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Scientific and Moral Truth
Scientific and Moral Truth in An Age of Fact-Value Dualism Introduction I’ve just been accused of being anti-science and anti-technology....
Peter Critchley
May 8, 2017127 min read
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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,...
Peter Critchley
May 4, 20172 min read
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Being and Place - Writing and Publishing Plan
Being and Place – Plan of Action! My Current Research http://pcritchley2.wixsite.com/beingandplace/being-and-place My new plans My plan...
Peter Critchley
Apr 24, 20173 min read
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Spinoza and God/Nature
I shall post a link to my little book on Spinoza. It is a short and tightly reasoned piece, very clear and cogent. Bertrand Russell...
Peter Critchley
Apr 24, 201712 min read
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Repersonalisation, Responsibility and Self-Assumed Obligation
Andrew Schmookler devised an interesting thought experiment that is pertinent here. The experiment is known as the parable of the tribes....
Peter Critchley
Apr 24, 201725 min read
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Spiritual Ecology
Spiritual ecology Then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come to a...
Peter Critchley
Apr 24, 20174 min read
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Ending the Politics of Illusion
One hell of a mess. Prepare for a long, rambling, provocative, plain-speaking piece about the impossibilities of politics at the moment,...
Peter Critchley
Feb 2, 201750 min read
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The appetite for joy pervading all creation
Yet again I find myself being drawn into an argument about God, having to challenge the stock argument that God and all such things that...
Peter Critchley
Jan 31, 201723 min read
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Commoning Together
COMMONING TOGETHER Education for meaningful sustainability and regeneration 'Building a new more sustainable future is surely best done...
Peter Critchley
Jan 28, 201711 min read
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