The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...

"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car" by William Blake I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started life as an...

DANTE’S JOURNEY THE SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody...

It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...

The Slenderest Knowledge of the Highest Things 'Those who seek the direct road to truth', Descartes argued, 'should not bother with any...

Liars, bullies and trolls Andrea Bocelli’s live performance in Milan was a wonderful experience and has gone down a storm across the...

I waste far too much time commenting on issues of secondary importance and engaging with people whose views, as irritating as they are,...

The Love that Seeketh Not its Own What my eyes saw was nothing mortal When in your beautiful eyes entire peace I found . . . I say that...

When all else has fallen, Love still stands “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” (Pascal). I think I must hold the...

The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...

Leap of Faith Nothing worthy proving can be proven The painting is Leap of Faith by Jon Morro. He describes it thus: I took a detail of...

The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...

Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives Whisper it to those who think that truth is factual and logical and no more, but it is entirely possible...

Aristotle gets his revenge over ‘science-based’ culture Thank you Edward Feser for the arguments presented in this new book Aristotle’s...

Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical...

"If my thesis is correct, Kant was right": Revisiting Kant's Role within MacIntyre's Critique of the Enlightenment Project by Kelvin...

Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in...