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Of Gods and Slaves
Reflections on my book from 2012 Of Gods and Gaia: Men as Gods Gambling with the Earth Ideas about body and soul, mind and consciousness,...
Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 202320 min read
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The Perennial Philosophy
I have organised my philosophical work around three core and recurring themes: Being and Place, Rational Freedom, and the Natural Law....
Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 202347 min read
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The Politics of Being and Place
Being and Place I would like to write a short commentary on Being and Place, with the express intention of underlining the practical...
Peter Critchley
Jun 17, 202352 min read
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Posthumanism as a housing for the new serfdom
About four or five years ago Arran Gare wrote to me. "Dear Peter Critchley I have recently realized that we have very similar interests...
Peter Critchley
Apr 5, 20236 min read
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Marx and Rational Freedom
Marx and Rational Freedom I read Marx critically and not theologically, which is how Marx intended he be read. I appreciate the fact that...
Peter Critchley
Aug 22, 202212 min read
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Ethics - A Guide to My Ethical Writings
Ethics Outlines to my ethical writings by way of a guide. Titles, links, abstracts, and tables of contents. The Ecology of Good (2020)...
Peter Critchley
Aug 7, 202228 min read
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An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings
An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings I will begin with a message sent to me by process philosopher Arran Gare: Dear Peter Critchley,...
Peter Critchley
Aug 6, 202249 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202210 min read
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The Best of People
The Best of People Yesterday I exchanged unpleasantries with someone who holds that “the best people can do in a crisis is panic buy...
Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 202113 min read
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To Live Fearlessly in Hope
I remember the footballer Matthew Le Tissier very well. I should do. I was in the Kop the afternoon he lifted the ball over the head of...
Peter Critchley
Dec 22, 202133 min read
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Still Here
To Live Fearlessly in Hope One day you will tell your story about how you overcame what you went through and it’ll be someone else’s...
Peter Critchley
Dec 15, 202158 min read
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Alone Again, Naturally
Alone Again, Naturally I’ve taken the title from the great Gilbert O’Sullivan song of the same name. Gilbert was a favourite singer from...
Peter Critchley
Oct 2, 202112 min read
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Bibliography and Word Count
Bibliography and Word Count Materials here can be found on my Academia, Humanities Commons, Being and Place, and Entirely Elvis sites. I...
Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 202123 min read
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Writing Dante
The Writing of Dante Below is the brief story of the trials and tribulations which have accompanied the writing of my Dante book from its...
Peter Critchley
Sep 15, 202134 min read
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Taking Practical Reason Seriously
Taking Practical Reason Seriously I would like to comment on this conversation with Danny Cullenward and David Victor, authors of a new...
Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202014 min read
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Climate Rebellion - Going Beyond the Default Options
Ten years ago, in Of Gods and Gaia, I analysed various proposals for planetary management and engineering to deal with the looming...
Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20205 min read
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Reclaiming Socialism, Reframing Conservatism
This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...
Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 20208 min read
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Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light “I wish, that I could really tell you, All the things that happened to me And all that I have seen, A world full of...
Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202014 min read
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Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car" by William Blake I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started life as an...
Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202050 min read
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Dante's Journey - book outlines
DANTE’S JOURNEY THE SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody...
Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202050 min read
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