Public Happiness and Virtue
Public Happiness and Virtue; or, continuing studies in Rational Freedom (the tradition I work in, affirming that the freedom/happiness of...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 14, 201692 min read
The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation
The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation We need a new way of doing politics. The old ways have failed, and millions are...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 201627 min read
BEING AND PLACE OUTLINES
BEING AND PLACE outline of the book 1 Introduction 2 Philosophical Foundations 3 Being and Place 4 Creative Evolution 5 The Ecological...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 8, 201683 min read
Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will, Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Rela
Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will, Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Relations Comments on Brexit, the EU, the...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 8, 201634 min read
The Economics of the Good
The Economics of the Good Adam Smith, Ethics and the Character of Virtue The call to act for the common good can be heard from all...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 26, 201627 min read
DANTE AND MARX
Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts. Forthcoming book from Princeton University Press...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 18, 201620 min read
Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita
Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita This relation of duality to non-duality, diversity and unity, the many and the one, raises all the...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 15, 201663 min read
WORDS IN-ACTION
WORDS IN-ACTION “Actions speak louder than words .. but not nearly as often.’ ― Mark Twain “Without knowing the force of words, it is...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 1, 20167 min read
The Submerged Sun of Wonder
The belief in God? It gets us out into the world to make a difference for the better indeed! What to say on this perennial? Human beings...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 15, 20168 min read
TO BE PIECES OF THE SOLUTION
To be pieces of the solution The Big Picture - Poem by Sandra Brennan We don't see the big picture But, maybe we aren't meant to, Or...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 11, 201621 min read
Eco-Praxis
ECO-PRAXIS We need to redefine ‘wealth’ in terms of life and its possibilities. Wealth, then, is not to be measured in monetary terms but...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 28, 201619 min read
LOVE AND THE JUST SOCIETY
LOVE AND THE JUST SOCIETY Brace yourself for a torrent of words on love, justice, truth and knowledge and why, despite seemingly ever...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 26, 20167 min read
COLLECTIVE GRIEF, LOVE AND JOYFUL HOPE
Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over Climate Change? The idea is highly controversial, but at least one psychiatrist is convinced that...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 25, 201646 min read
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LIVING PHILOSOPHERS
The 50 Greatest Living Philosophers Who are the best philosophers living today? We should know better than to put a question like that to...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 10, 20164 min read
Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed?
Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed? Per Espen Stoknes and eco-psychology Well worth...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 7, 20162 min read
Freedom through Service
Freedom through service Joy through solidarity Not sad, high-minded men with a handful of high-minded, bleak ideals, but citizens of a...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 30, 20164 min read
We have to learn to Collaborate and Share
Stephen Hawking – we need to rethink our attitude toward wealth. ‘We will now have to learn to collaborate and to share.’ ‘People are...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 25, 201616 min read
A Few of us have Many Eyes
Painting by Christian Verpoorten “This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201644 min read
Laudato Si' anniversary: For what do we cherish enough to act?
Laudato Si' anniversary: For what do we cherish enough to act? “Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 12, 201660 min read
The Whole World Order ... and the delusions of separation.
The Whole World Order … and the delusions of separation. Is politics a matter of Truth, as with Plato? Or is its temper judicious, as...
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