Showing posts with label Morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morality. Show all posts
09 December 2025

Some notes on time travel; and why it’s not on my wish list

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 This is a post I wrote on Quora in answer to a question, where I gave all the reasons I don’t. It’s a far-ranging post, including science f...
30 October 2025

Can you change who you are?

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This very question is at the centre of an essay published in Philosophy Now (Issue 170, Oct/Nov 2025, pp. 56-9) under the topic of Film , b...
05 September 2025

Why democracy works

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This is prompted by another article in Philosophy Now (Issue 169, Aug/Sep 2025) on Karl Popper, titled Popper, Science & Democracy wri...
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18 July 2025

Evil arises out of complacency

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 I was going to post this on Facebook and still might, but I think my blog a more apposite home.   Evil arises out of complacency, which is ...
17 June 2025

Sympathy and empathy; what’s the difference?

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 This arose from an article I read in Philosophy Now (Issue 167, April/May 2025) by James R. Robinson, who developed his ideas while writin...
20 May 2025

Is Morality Objective or Subjective?

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 This was a Question of the Month , answers to which appeared in the latest issue of Philosophy Now (Issue 167, April/May 2025). I didn’t s...
22 March 2025

Truth, trust and lies; can we tell the difference?

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 I’ve written on this topic before, more than once, but one could write a book on it, and Yuval Noah Harari has come very close with his lat...
25 February 2025

Plato’s Cave & Social Media

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 In a not-so-recent post , I referenced Philosophy Now Issue 165 (Dec 2024/Jan 2025), which had the theme, The Return of God . However, its...
06 February 2025

God and the problem of evil

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  Philosophy Now (UK publication) that I’ve subscribed to for well over a decade now, is a bi-monthly (so 6 times a year) periodical, and i...
07 January 2025

Why are we addicted to stories involving struggle?

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This is something I’ve written about before, so what can I possibly add? Sometimes the reframing of a question changes the emphasis. In this...
01 December 2024

What’s the way forward?

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  Philosophy Now Issue 163 (Aug/Sep 2024) has as its theme, The Politics of Freedom . I’ve already cited an article by Paul Doolan in my la...
02 October 2024

Common sense; uncommonly agreed upon

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 The latest New Scientist (28 Sep., 2024) had an article headlined Uncommon Sense , written by Emma Young (based in Sheffield, UK) which wa...
19 September 2024

Prima Facie; the play

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 I went and saw a film made of a live performance of this highly rated play, put on by the National Theatre at the Harold Pinter Theatre in ...
28 July 2024

When truth becomes a casualty, democracy is put at risk

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 You may know of Raimond Gaita as the author of Romulus, My Father , a memoir of his childhood, as the only child of postwar European parent...
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05 July 2024

The universal quest for meaning

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I’ve already cited Philosophy Now (Issue 162, June/July 2024) in my last 2 posts and I’m about to do it again. Every issue has a theme, and...
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