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Peter Critchley
May 13, 201535 min read
Individual Choice, Moral Responsibility and Collective Action: The Improbabilities of Changing Ourse
The link below opens up an article that gives us some interesting essays on what we can do to address the environmental crisis that...
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Peter Critchley
May 9, 201515 min read
Making Eco-Citizens
The Green Party got over one million votes in the general election. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-green-party-got-ove...
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Peter Critchley
May 8, 201511 min read
The Economics of Purpose - E.F. Schumacher and R.H. Tawney
E.F. Schumacher is an important figure whose significance has yet to be fully appreciated. People read his book Small is Beautiful, and...
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Peter Critchley
May 6, 201560 min read
Pope Francis, climate change, Marx, and morality.
Vatican spells out vision for zero-carbon world. I’ll start with a quote from Chris Mooney: ‘This week — and it still feels strange to...
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Peter Critchley
May 1, 201537 min read
Love of Home, Love of Place
You always know you are in trouble when you wake up with a crowd gathered around you, and someone with a pained, concerned expression...
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Peter Critchley
May 1, 201511 min read
Workers of all lands unite - and build the cooperative commonwealth
May Day: workers of the world unite and take over – their factories. From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 16, 20153 min read
The World We Could Have Had
Some hard truths and hard realities to face. If there's any point in writing a book, I'm going to title mine 'The world we could have...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 8, 201512 min read
BEING AT ONE: MAKING A HOME IN THE EARTH'S COMMONWEALTH OF VIRTUE by Peter Critchley
Why ‘commonwealth of virtue’ instead of, say, ‘commonwealth of life’ (the title of Peter Brown’s book)? I refer to virtue for a specific...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 7, 20151 min read
The Necessity of Virtue
Why do I study virtues? Because they are the essential qualities for successful living. Success being conceived in terms of happiness as...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 18, 201515 min read
A Place of Joy and Learning - and Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
A Place of Joy and Learning – and critical thinking My first year at senior school coincided with a young teacher’s first teaching job at...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 17, 20153 min read
A Deeper Freedom
A Deeper Freedom Liberal Democracy as an Everyday Morality Charles W. Anderson Publication Year: 2002 “Today those who believe in...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 20151 min read
Social Cost of Climate Change Too Low
I'm reading this in light of the new Oxfam report which finds that – on current trends – 1% of the world’s population will shortly own...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 28, 20141 min read
Being Human
Being Human What is involved in being human? Awareness, care, kindness, foresight, justice, compassion, consciousness of mortality.And a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 13, 20141 min read
And who will our saviours be?
Forget technological messiahs, nothing can save us except ourselves. Technology is us, an extension of who we are, as greedy, stupid and...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 20141 min read
Comm-
My key principles and themes all seem to have ‘comm’ as the stem. There must be a linguistics expert out there who can explain the...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 27, 20142 min read
Marc Chagall: Art as a State of Soul
'I had only to open my bedroom window and blue air, love and flowers entered with her.' Floating lovers on flying horses, fiddlers on the...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 25, 20143 min read
Ruins
RUINS Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 30, 20132 min read
Samuel Palmer: Mysterious Moonlit Dreams
I think Samuel Palmer is something of a neglected and underrated figure, certainly in critical circles. He has a revelatory visual...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 7, 20133 min read
Song of the Earth
Song of the earth One of the dominant trends of our time: the multiplication of specialists and the paucity of generalists and, with...
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