28 July 2007
The politics of Procrustes
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In Antony Flew’s book The Politics of Procrustes (Temple Smith 1981, p.21), he defines some ideas of equality, that is, ‘proposed ideals of...
26 July 2007
Aphorism of the month (July)
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I am not concerned that Society should try to do me good; I should only like it to try to do me less harm.
22 July 2007
Einstein "didn't need an academic post"
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Before, during and immediately after 1905, [Einstein] was incapable of securing an academic post. In fact, he didn’t need one. He was perfec...
19 July 2007
The Office of "Fair Access"
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Apparently there is now an Office of Fair Access (meaning to universities). As usual, ‘fair’ refers to some underlying and unquestionable as...
18 July 2007
Translation into Russian does me no good
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The Human Evasion has been translated into Russian and now appears on some website. If my ideas are of ‘interest’ to people even to that ex...
12 July 2007
Egalitarianism and the female image
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While I think that fundamentally what has been against me all my life has been the modern ideology of egalitarianism, with its hatred of inn...
10 July 2007
Tory tax breaks
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Sweeping changes to the tax and benefits system worth more than £3000 a year to some families will be unveiled by the Conservatives today. I...
"Standing up for God"
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In an article in the Daily Mail (8 July) Peter Lewis, referring to the recent books The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and God Is Not Gr...
02 July 2007
Double standards on child abuse
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In a recent child abuse case a mother was jailed for standing by while her daughter was raped by members of a paedophile ring. ... it was th...
26 June 2007
Some more notes about pain
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Copy of a letter, following on from this . I think that the pain thing is complicated for most people by the fact that their ‘individualisti...
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