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Peter Critchley
May 20, 202243 min read
Avoiding Traps and Snares - Words with Meaning
Finally, at long last, and not before time, there are signs, here and there, that parts of “the Left” are beginning to see identity...
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Peter Critchley
May 3, 202251 min read
Metaphysical Reconstruction - Foundations, Reason, and Reality
The fundamental question of the age Can a society sustain itself if its members aren’t willing to nurture the roots that gave birth to it...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 26, 202214 min read
Revaluing Democracy through a Deeper Freedom
Authoritarianism is what you get when STEM people try to do politics. In truth, their politics is a non-politics or even an...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 20, 20226 min read
Inner Growth as against External Force
I shall begin with this quote from Lewis Mumford in 1964 “I would not belittle, still less deny, the many admirable products this...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202244 min read
Being Essential, Essential Being
Being Essential, Essential Being I write as a philosopher who went out on a limb in the 1990s by arguing forthrightly for an essentialist...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202210 min read
Truth, Justice, and Love
There are some things in life that you could never forget. Like scrapping with your bare hands to wrench advertisement hoardings off the...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 12, 20224 min read
When Bob met Françoise
When Bob met Françoise I guess this is why it was called “The Swinging Sixties.” Things always get tricky when you mistake an ideal for...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 12, 202212 min read
The Mainstream Left and the Working Class
How the Left betrayed the truckers In response to this article in Unheard, I read this comment: The social milieu susceptible to wokeness...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 7, 202214 min read
A Review of Katherine Jenkins at Venue Cymru, Llandudno
Katherine the Great! A Review of Katherine Jenkins at Venue Cymru, Llandudno I think I have worn out miscellaneous family members and my...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 6, 20223 min read
The Living Goddess
The Living Goddess I have written and given talks on the figure of The Goddess in nature and history. I am far from being expert in the...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 3, 20226 min read
Beyond Leviathan
Beyond Leviathan - The Critique of the State as Social Power In a recent paper, Ross Mittiga argues for the superiority of authoritarian...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 2, 202228 min read
Good Work
Good work I like these words that Ursula Le Guin spoke in her acceptance speech upon receiving The National Book Foundation Medal for...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 23, 20224 min read
The Education of Desire
The Education of Desire I wrote these short passages in response to a perceptive tweet on Twitter from an ecologist. This was the tweet:...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 23, 20222 min read
The Dialectics of Socio-Ecological Sustainability
Abstract conceptions of sustainability always look reasonable on paper. The test is how these translate into the field of practical...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Bringing Politics Back to its Senses
Back in 2019, I wrote to Rory Stewart in praise of a number of his political views. I liked his concern to bring means and ends back in...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 17, 20229 min read
Birthday well-wishes for Françoise Hardy
It’s the birthday of Françoise Hardy today (17th January 1944). I’ll wish her well, recognizing in light of some hard medical conditions...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202229 min read
When Naturalism Becomes an Inhumanism
Naturalism as an Inhumanism This essay consists of thoughts and observations incited by the reaction the following article inspired: What...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202221 min read
The Environmental Problem is Political, and so is the solution.
The Problem is Political, and so is the solution. I would like to comment on this article: Scientists call for a moratorium on climate...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202229 min read
Transcending the Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World
The Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World Or, The Egoism that Eats God and Feeds Gods The main focus of this essay is the need...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 202240 min read
Skepticism vs the new idolatry
I see a lot of Vikings on Facebook and Twitter, armed to the teeth with technology and warring daily on their keyboards. They are more...
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