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Peter Critchley

May 10, 202331 min read

Escaping the Tragic Dialectics of Progress

Human beings are healthier, wealthier, longer-lived and better educated than at any time in history, and in greater numbers. We may...

Peter Critchley

Aug 7, 202233 min read

An Essay on Rational Freedom

An Essay on Rational Freedom A brief introduction to the conception of 'rational freedom' which is the organizing principle of my work....

Peter Critchley

Apr 19, 202011 min read

Free to Choose

Too daft to laugh at, as the good folk of northern England would say. I wonder if these are the kind of people who have to be warned not...

Peter Critchley

Apr 16, 202024 min read

Liberty as Licence Destroys Freedom

Liberty as Licence Destroys Freedom I have just had the misfortune to hear an American ‘libertarian’ apologist for the anarchy of the...

Peter Critchley

Apr 10, 202014 min read

CORONAV_R_S - BREAKING AND REMAKING CHAINS

CORONA V _ R _ S Remove the I and U and take them elsewhere into the building of a new public community based on the unity of each and...

Peter Critchley

Sep 30, 201938 min read

Dangers and Wrong Paths

Dangers and Wrong Paths “What a variety of dangers surrounds us! What a number of wrong paths present themselves in the investigation of...