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Peter Critchley
Jan 31, 201723 min read
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...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 28, 201711 min read
Commoning Together
COMMONING TOGETHER Education for meaningful sustainability and regeneration 'Building a new more sustainable future is surely best done...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 20167 min read
Christmas in Liverpool ...
2016 has been a grim old year and last week it nearly claimed yours truly. To come straight to the point, last Wednesday I got struck...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 25, 20164 min read
Rational Freedom and Public Happiness
Rational Freedom and Public Happiness The case for the dignity and worth of politics. Politics has been hollowed out in the modern age,...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 24, 201616 min read
The Light Within
The Light Within To see things as they really are, the eye must catch fire. In fact, there needs to be a full sensuous awakening. ‘Unless...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 20167 min read
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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