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...

Rational Freedom and Public Happiness The case for the dignity and worth of politics. Politics has been hollowed out in the modern age,...

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...

Public Happiness and Virtue; or, continuing studies in Rational Freedom (the tradition I work in, affirming that the freedom/happiness of...

The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation We need a new way of doing politics. The old ways have failed, and millions are...

BEING AND PLACE outline of the book 1 Introduction 2 Philosophical Foundations 3 Being and Place 4 Creative Evolution 5 The Ecological...

Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will, Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Relations Comments on Brexit, the EU, the...

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...

Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts. Forthcoming book from Princeton University Press...

Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita This relation of duality to non-duality, diversity and unity, the many and the one, raises all the...

WORDS IN-ACTION “Actions speak louder than words .. but not nearly as often.’ ― Mark Twain “Without knowing the force of words, it is...

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...

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...

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...

LOVE AND THE JUST SOCIETY Brace yourself for a torrent of words on love, justice, truth and knowledge and why, despite seemingly ever...

Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over Climate Change? The idea is highly controversial, but at least one psychiatrist is convinced that...

The 50 Greatest Living Philosophers Who are the best philosophers living today? We should know better than to put a question like that to...

Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed? Per Espen Stoknes and eco-psychology Well worth...

Freedom through service Joy through solidarity Not sad, high-minded men with a handful of high-minded, bleak ideals, but citizens of a...

Stephen Hawking – we need to rethink our attitude toward wealth. ‘We will now have to learn to collaborate and to share.’ ‘People are...