"Why is it (will) so necessary in our thinking about human conduct? What is its function? The answer is, I think, that it serves the purpose of enabling us to pass from a static conception of human nature to the consideration of human beings in action." www.the-philosopher.co.uk/2000/01/reas...

"Understanding that ecology isn't limited to physical Earth ecology, we can love and respect the internal structuring of a life as well the universal complex of values, interrelations and wholes" Andrew Porter argues we should widen our definition of ecology www.the-philosopher.co.uk/2021/09/ecol...

"What do we mean when we call a question important? Broadly speaking, when it is a question of principle; one that refers to a general feature of the world, not a detail; one that concerns the structure of the world, a valid law, not a single unique fact."
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"Fear and Loathing in the Land of the Free" In the light of Trump's victory, David Comfort seems remarkably prescient. The Founders believed citizens must be well informed to participate in a true democracy to avoid the nation degenerating into ‘mobocracy’. www.the-philosopher.co.uk/2024/08/fear...

“The Confucian worldview stands squarely against the ethos of liberalism. At a time when the surveillance state and the centralisation of power have weakened notions of liberty, equality and individual freedom, it privieges the notion of Intrinsic Order…“
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“In 1620 Francis Bacon wrote: “The human understanding, having adopted an opinion, draws all things else to support and agree with it. And if there is a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side yet these it neglects and despises…”
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“The uncertainty principle, as it came to be known, showed with inescapable, mathematical precision that … full knowledge of the present moment wasn’t just hard to pin down; it was actually impossible.”
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“Individual consciousness expresses itself in symbolic language. The Word. This is the mind camera’s film capturing sense or cerebral experience. So, the hub of the five senses, the head, becomes a micro movie theatre of past and projected future images…”
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“Incongruity theory says jokes acquires their funniness by setting up an expectation and then winding up with a contrary, even absurd ending. Kant’s Critique of Judgment notes: “In everything that is to excite a lively laugh there must be something absurd.”
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“For fifty-six years millions of Palestinians have been living under a military regime, being deprived of civil, legal and political rights. Worse still, they live side by side with the colonisers in what is becoming ever more obviously an apartheid system…”
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