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Peter Critchley

Mar 24, 20196 min read

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Being and Place Posts

Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics

Living in the Sociopathological World

Elvis as a Musical Education

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

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

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

Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita

Words In-action

The Submerged Sun of Wonder

To be Pieces of the Solution

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

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

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

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 Solving

A Deeper Freedom

Social Cost of Climate Change Too Low

And who will our saviours be?

Marc Chagall: Art as a State of Soul

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

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

The End of Nature Without as the End of Nature Within

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

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

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