Posts and LinksPeter CritchleyMar 24, 20196 min read Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical Education The End Forthcoming work in Being and Place In the image of, but not identical Who would Jesus vote for? Hell is a Human Invention, and a Humanist Reality Liberal Impotence, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Violence The Sweet, the Sad, and the Sentimental System Change or Climate Change - which is the easiest to envisage? Adieu l'artiste - Charles Aznavour The Death of God and the Abolition of Religion The Sick Society Viktor Frankl and the Reasons to Choose Life Virtuous Communities fostering Habits of the Heart Support and Stability All the Wishes in the World Rehabilitating the Ethical Life The Unveiling of a Gravestone to William Blake Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless Socially Useful Production - a New Lucas Plan Bigotry Speaking Out of Privilege How real do you want it? Into the Liberal Inferno My latest ... The revolution will neither be monetized nor academically peer reviewed ... and neither will I Being at One Remembering Joel Kovel - pioneer eco-socialist, visionary traveler and friend Reflections on Françoise Hardy's Personne d’Autre Tatty-Bye, Dear Old Doddy, Tatty-Bye Revolutionary Spirit - Liverpool 1976-1988 Geddes and Mumford Free Choice against State Authority Toward Reason existing in Rational Form Valuing What we Make Enthusing the People For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble. Reform and Reformation The Imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma - In Praise of Ursula Le Guin In the World of Waldo Williams Good Government or Representative Government? My Favourite Christmas Songs Erasmus - a Life Devoted to Reason and Faith Religion and (the Limits of) Reason Naive Cynicism or Practical Idealism A View Out of Dante - Aquinas on Fire in California Practices Beyond Perceptions and Conceptions The Document of Citizenship Merry Christmas! Marx, ecological rift and the social metabolic order Character and the Common Good Metaphysical Recovery and Reconstruction Fighting Fires Kant, MacIntyre, Virtue and the Enlightenment project Let us not speak of them, look and pass by Calling St Helens The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre and Lewis Mumford Hope not Hate Remembrance Real Reformation Ecological Restoration as a Restorying The Madness of Capitalist Reason Spirit, Reason, Nature, Freedom Love, Liberty and Law Gerrard Winstanley and The Wealth of Commons and the Weal of Commoners Climate Accord and the Politics of Friendship From Core to Infinity We are all of us much more beautiful than we are told Giving thanks for the wonder that never ends Being and Place - A lean and logical plan and outline Against Theopolitical Fundamentalism Pentagon chief says climate change threatens national security Reconstituting Public Life The Existential Truth About Climate Change Climate Politics as the Reconstitution of Public Life Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Common Purpose To walk like ghosts .. or get politically engaged again Ignoring climate injustice is not a viable survival strategy Goodbye Brian Cant Climate Mobilization and Leap The Climate Commitment The Peace of a Good God Paddy McAloon - pop's great lost voice Earth to Trump ... If Reason were enough .... Inspiring Environmental Action By Wisdom and Labour Being Who You Are Rousseau, Natural Law and Rational Freedom Scientific and Moral Truth Toleration a virtue? Being and Place - Writing and Publishing Plan Spinoza and God/Nature Repersonalisation, Responsibility and Self-Assumed Obligation Spiritual Ecology Ending the Politics of Illusion The appetite for joy pervading all creation Commoning Together Christmas in Liverpool ... Rational Freedom and Public Happiness The Light Within Public Happiness and Virtue The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation BEING AND PLACE OUTLINES Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will, Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Relations The Economics of the Good Dante and Marx Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita Words In-action The Submerged Sun of Wonder To be Pieces of the Solution Eco-Praxis Love and the Just Society COLLECTIVE GRIEF, LOVE AND JOYFUL HOPE THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LIVING PHILOSOPHERS Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed? Freedom through Service We have to learn to Collaborate and Share A Few of us have Many Eyes The Whole World Order ... and the delusions of separation. Muhammad Ali – Champion of Peace, Freedom, Racial Equality and Social Justice Between you and reality is a pile of books Politics, Psychology, and Physics Sic Transit Gloria Civilisation Laudato Si' anniversary: For what do we cherish enough to act? Plato and Democracy Truth, Justice and Love The Little Village Church with the Big Heart Truth Matters, and is A Work of Reason Fantasy Football The New Economics of Prosperity Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo Real Growth and Qualitative Development Here comes the Flood Markets and Morality: Where do public virtues come from? Heart, Hand and Head Responsibility Nature via Nurture Why we are born, Whence we come, Wither we go. Love and Knowledge The Age of (Moral) Ecology Should we be Optimistic? The Survival of the Most Loving Aristotle and the Reenchantment of Nature Paris Climate Talks doomed to failure Peace on Earth Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place The Poetry of Earth Study War no More The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action Balance Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? Moral Concern and Earthcare Amory Lovins and Natural Capitalism Being in Touch with Life A Call to Virtue Eurovision Song Contest Top Twenty Unchaining the World What Place Value in a World of Fact? Economics, Ecology and Ethics Individual Choice, Moral Responsibility and Collective Action: The Improbabilities of Changing Ourselves and Changing the World. Making Eco-Citizens The Economics of Purpose - E.F. Schumacher and R.H. Tawney Pope Francis, climate change, Marx, and morality. Love of Home, Love of Place Workers of all lands unite - and build the cooperative commonwealth The World We Could Have Had BEING AT ONE: MAKING A HOME IN THE EARTH'S COMMONWEALTH OF VIRTUE The Necessity of Virtue A Place of Joy and Learning - and Critical Thinking and Problem SolvingA Deeper Freedom Social Cost of Climate Change Too Low Being Human And who will our saviours be? Comm- Marc Chagall: Art as a State of Soul Ruins Samuel Palmer: Mysterious Moonlit Dreams Song of the Earth Fact, Value and Political Ideology Green Economics and Sustainable Living The Scream Piercing Through Nature The Game of Life: Response to Chess applied to Feminism Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement Walking a Fine Line The Shadow of the Future – Witness against the Beast Eco-Catastrophe in the Oceans The New Path to Prosperity Biological Necessity, Moral Choice and Climate Crisis The Missing Science of Ian Plimer Flourish Well or Abandon Hope The National Climate Assessment Plato, Art and Eternity The House You Will Build Peace with the Creator, Peace with the Creation The Fog of Denial Poetry and the Moral Sense of Place Ecopolis Human link to climate change stronger than ever Save the Planet and we Save the World Economy Politics and the Climate Countdown Countdown to Eco-Catastrophe 50 Months Left to Tackle Climate Change Warming Seas and Vanishing Fish All that is solid melts into air - and water Knowledge and Opinion We have changed the face of the planet Arctic Sea Ice Melts to its Lowest Recorded Level The e-Akademeia Ecological Virtue Aspects of Green Economics Climate Change - the Undeniable Truth Sceptical Scientists see the Light after Climate Change Study Pure Wind, or the need for an international green infrastructure The Case for Green Energy Climate change begins at home Countdown to 2017 Worldchanging The End of Nature Without as the End of Nature Within Apocalypse The Dialogical Moment Why are we letting the big emitters control our future? Prosperity Without Growth Estrangement and Extinction Global Heating - A Guide to the Arguments Heaven's Performance 'Best evidence yet' for global heating Why Philosophy Levels of Cognition Plato's Cave, Objective Reality and Morality Plato's Theory of the Forms The Rational Utopia Aristotle's Flourishing Socrates and Moral Knowledge Spectators under Eternity or Participants within the Creative Universe? Hegel. Objectification and Alienation Reason and Alienation Philosophy and Science Sceptical Environmentalism Lies, Damned Lies and Journalism Nuclear Nihilism Public Responsibility - Time To Share The Burden Of Proof Teetering on the Brink of Climate Catastrophe The Transformations of Humanity The Global Civil Society Movement Fear and Selfishness and the Environmental Crisis Can climate crisis be avoided? Dupes, idiots and climate change deniers Climate Crisis as the Opportunity to Become Human Eco Catastrophe in Our Lifetimes Giddens' Paradox Ocean Acidification and Mass Extinction The Theology of Enough Seven Years to Save the Planet The Final Curtain, or the Need for a Biospheric Politics
The Clever PeopleWritten 17 January 2026 A new paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research advocates for ‘Queering Children's Rights.’ The author of the paper asserts that children have a right
Assisted DyingThe U.K. just voted to encourage vulnerable people to kill themselves in the name of some dubious dignity. Coincidentally, the mass...
