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Category Archives: Politics
Rights Gone Wrong
Rights are all well and good, but sometimes they lead you to the wrong places. Generally I’m with John Stuart Mill: “Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Ethics, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged 'On Liberty', 2nd Amendment, John Stuart Mill, Rights, The right to bear arms
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I am a Scientist
Like most people I guess, I get irritated by folk who are wrong. But unlike most people, I actually don’t mind so much when I am. Perhaps that’s because I believe in a ‘Bayesian brain’. Mash up all the facts, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Life, Politics, Psychology, Science, Work
Tagged Analogue not Digital, Bayesian Brain, Belief, Changing your mind, Facts, Persuasion, Probabilistic, Science
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Philia
I do feel – and feel is the right word – that Herbert McCabe’s ‘On Aquinas’ deserves a wider audience. So many important themes, from so many thinkers, rendered limpid in a thesis all of his own. Of course there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Care, Friendship, Herbert McCabe, Justice, On Aquinas, Philia, Society
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Change the Record
At lunch with a good friend today, we got talking about people and politics. We both admitted to getting cross, as we get older, at having to spend time with people whose views never change and who keep chewing the … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Change the Record, Civitas, FDR, Living Well, People, Politics, Society
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Subway Sceptic
In amongst the standard issue ‘New York stylie’ graffiti I walked past yesterday was a quality thought. ‘Question everything’. This struck me as rather profound for a coastal Cornwall underpass. But who inspired the phantom sprayer? Was it: 1) The … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged 'On Liberty', Civil Liberties, David Hume, Epoché, Graffiti, Hesiod, John Stuart Mill, Pyrrho, Questions, Sex Pistols, Wilhelm von Humbolt, Zero Tolerance
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Rhetoric
I’ve been doing a lot of presentations on strategy in the last few weeks. The good news is people say it’s all very clear. They like it. “A lot better than it was too” some say. I acknowledge, slightly wistfully, … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Language, Life, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Work
Tagged A natural disposition for the true, Aristotle, Clarity, Credibility, Eloquence, Ethos, Intestine Commotions, Logos, Long chains of inferences, Montaigne, Pathos, Soaring Rhetoric, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Strategy
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Equals and Similars
Aristotle has some interesting things to say about society and man as a social animal. In summary, man is by nature social. Intelligence and virtue are our best qualities. And, justice is the minimum common bond which keeps us from … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Politics, Work
Tagged Aristotle, Citizens, Equals and Similars, Fellow-Feeling, Friendship, Justice, Politics
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