Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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Selfishness can be made to work for the common good.
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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When the oppressed fight back successfully there is an inescapable feeling that some greater justice has been served.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Because language has such strong psychological import metaphors are taken to be actual when they are merely linguistic conventions.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
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You don’t blow someone’s head off just because they offended you.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Free Will & The Invisible Spiders
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If everything in existence is subject to causal physics then how can it be said that anything has genuine freedom?
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
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I would define a good human as one rich in add-ons.
Saturday, 14th March 2009
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There is nothing said to be good that could not be more accurately described using other words.
Sunday, 22 February 2009
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Agnosticism shouldn’t lead to a spiritual void.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
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Religion proffers the impossible.
Saturday, 31 May 2008
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Morality is the civilised way humans enforce their will one to the other.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
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The natural state is ignorance.
Thursday, 21 February 2008
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Humans are a seething mass of feeling.
Sunday, 27 January 2008
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The belief systems that underpinned the Church were as toxic as they were nutritious.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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Our primary goal, the so called meaning of life, is to understand what we feel.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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In Kant's transcendent world, everything exists in its purest essence beyond experience.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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It is better to go forward with a sense of how things feel rather than how things are.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
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Knowledge wins over belief sooner or later.
Saturday, 24 November 2007
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Being selfish is basic to humanity.
Saturday, 6 October 2007
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Existentialism and Humanism is not a great work of philosophy. It is a political text.
Saturday, 7 April 2007
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It is hard to think of any human context not improved were a sincere respect employed for how actions impact on feelings.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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One of the misconceptions of societies historically was believing that humans are much more rational than they actually are.
Friday, 13 October 2006
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A good philosophy is an essential part of mental health.
Saturday, 7 October 2006
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It's astonishing the huge amount of resource that human beings have spent in trying to destroy each other.
Saturday, 7 October 2006
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A sceptical attitude toward absolutes whether of knowledge or the divine right of kings was core to Locke’s thinking.
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
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There is no shortage of sound refutations of design arguments.
Thursday, 16 February 2006
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A response to a bad event can become yet just another bad thing adding to the chain.
Saturday, 11 February 2006
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This is humanity in its optimum state: humbled and content, devoid of hubris, arrogance and over-confidence, and all the deficits that come from sophistry and illusion.
Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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A consequence of the damaged psyche is that people are more prone to aggression than they might otherwise be.
Saturday, 7 January 2006
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Opinion determines quality.
Sunday, 11 December 2005
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Traditional religion bases its moral premise on absolutist principles which are far from universal.
Sunday, 11 December 2005
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A proper philosophy of the human psyche would be the first moral philosophy in history that was coherent, workable, beneficial and readily acceptable across all humanity.
Monday, 5 December 2005
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What is important is to understand the limitations of knowledge and more importantly to be able to put that knowledge to use in a constructive way.
Saturday, 3 December 2005
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When people are scapegoated by those purporting to be morally superior, alarm bells should sound.
Monday, 28 November 2005
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We owe to Christianity, to the philosophers, poets, and musicians, a superabundance of deeply agitated feelings. (Nietzsche)
Friday, 14 October 2005
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Cause and karma may turn out to be only in the human imagination.
Thursday, 5 May 2005
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The fact ontology facilitates the physical world and the value ontology the emotional and psychological.
Sunday, 17 April 2005
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Material gains don’t seem to have made people any happier.
Saturday, 9 October 2004
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Unfortunate souls who for whatever reason suffer from weakened spiritual immunity become recipients of projection.
Monday, 6 September 2004
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It is appropriate now to widen the net and attribute intelligence more liberally.
Sunday, 11 July 2004
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MacMurray argues that reason is just as common to emotion as it is to intellect.
Friday, 2 July 2004
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The essence of a reality based on values is spiritual rather than empirical.
Sunday, 27 June 2004
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Morality as it has traditionally been known would come to be seen as a tired and outmoded mechanism.
Sunday, 20 June 2004
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Ownership is little more than the right to process if you are violated.
Friday, 11 June 2004
Negativism & Liberal Democracy
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Do we coerce those states who do not recognise the benefits of the liberal system into conformity?
Friday, 4 June 2004
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The majority of important stuff in our lives isn’t actually factual.
Tuesday, 6 April 2004
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Scientists have been able to do for us what God hasn’t, couldn’t or can’t.
Tuesday, 2 March 2004
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I think that believing in the supremacy of value over fact makes for a happier life regardless of truth.
Saturday, 7 February 2004
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Truth cannot be attained in any absolute sense.
Tuesday, 27 January 2004
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Most have a relationship with authority that never gets beyond the childhood set of commands given them.
Saturday, 10 January 2004
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Coercion is at the heart of the moral law.
Monday, 29 December 2003
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The Third Way was another theoretical attempt at lifting humans from their base level.
Wednesday, 10 December 2003
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According to Jung, repressions take hold in the collective unconscious before re-appearing transformed as actual manifestations.
Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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There are no beginnings and no endings necessarily.
Wednesday, 7 May 2003
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Karma is a causal process just as indiscriminate as any other.
Monday, 17 February 2003
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I wondered if the thought of the great philosophers could be reduced to a single sentence.
Monday, 27 January 2003
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What if nothing can make a difference?
Sunday, 26 January 2003
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Perhaps too much value has been accorded to words and language.
Saturday, 25 January 2003
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It’s easier to coerce if simplistic concepts of black and white are put forward as truths to be followed.
Thursday, 23 January 2003
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Whether existence is pre-ordained or blindly random it's incredible either way and something to rejoice in.
Thursday, 23 January 2003
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The idea of a common psyche still remains compelling for me in my personal journey.
Monday, 20 January 2003
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You get into a muddle when using the language of one category that is appropriate to another.
Tuesday, 14 January 2003
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Like most under-educated types the folks around me tended to speak in platitudes which they understood to represent fixed absolutes.
Thursday, 12 December 2002
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Our purpose might be to gather information as if individual minds work like probes reporting what they see.
Wednesday, 5 June 2002
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Life everywhere seems to conform to patterns.
Tuesday, 4 December 2001
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I think it is probably for the greater good that the “will to power” is held in check.
Saturday, 10 November 2001
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Have faith and act with compassion.
Wednesday, 24 October 2001
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There’s no empirical evidence for cause.
Monday, 20 August 2001
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It is chains of events that give rise to the notion of cause.
Thursday, 17 August 2000
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Whatever examples you think of can virtually all be explained away by some kind of determinism.
Thursday, 20 July 2000
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When we say that an action is right or a piece of art work is good we say so implying a truth and as such invoke a meta-reality.
Sunday, 5 March 2000
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It’s as if a whole new ethos is being born which threatens much of what is good about civilised life.
Saturday, 8 May 1999
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Moral truths are important, illusory or not, and believing in them makes a difference to how a life is lived.
Tuesday, 1 December 1998
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It’s what you do that’s important not what you are.
Saturday, 31 October 1998
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There is no external authority whereby the “right” or the “true” arguments can be validated.
Thursday, 26 February 1998
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Hume is probably the most radical of all the British empiricists.
