The Perennial Philosophy
I have organised my philosophical work around three core and recurring themes: Being and Place, Rational Freedom, and the Natural Law....
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Peter Critchley
May 20, 202329 min read
Metaphorics - Myth, Metaphysics, and Metaphor
Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 16, 202228 min read
Reason, Freedom, and God
Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...
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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....
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Peter Critchley
Aug 6, 202249 min read
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,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 202214 min read
Dante: He Hath Seen Well
Dante: He Hath Seen Well The painting is “Dante (He Hath Seen Well)” by Jean-Leon Gerome I've seen some get this title wrong as "He Hath...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 202216 min read
Rational Freedom and Happiness in contemporary culture
In face of a movement which takes some of your own themes, reduces and relativizes them by way of arbitrary, self-chosen standards, and...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 202215 min read
Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart
Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 202113 min read
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...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 5, 202117 min read
Democrats vs Autocrats
Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 23, 202037 min read
Rational Freedom: Reconciling Autonomy and Authority
I’ve just received a new article from Unheard in my inbox, ‘Libertarianism Never Ends Well’ by Mary Harrington, December 23 2020. The...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 20209 min read
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 30, 202024 min read
A Rational Environmentalism
A Rational Environmentalism There has been yet another book published by a long-term member of the environmental movement, pointing out...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 8, 20203 min read
The Religious Roots of Rational Freedom
If I may talk about myself (as usual), this interview with Jurgen Habermas caught my eye for personal reasons. I organized my work around...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 5, 20202 min read
Liberty and Licence
Liberty, they say, when they mean licence. A microcosm of the libertarianism of recent decades. The anarchy of the rich and powerful...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 8, 20194 min read
Dispensing my Mind
There comes a point when the world, its events and its people finally become so overwhelming that you just have to call it a day. I had a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 4, 201932 min read
Superintelligence
Superintelligence The fundamental problem of politics is how to transform societies composed of self-interested individuals and sectional...
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