30 October 2009
Obese mothers and the loss of a principle
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A newborn girl was taken into care because of fears her weight would balloon in the care of her obese parents. The child was removed from h...
28 October 2009
Bertrand Russell on Nietzsche
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He [Nietzsche] condemns Christian love because he thinks it is an outcome of fear: I am afraid my neighbour may injure me, and so I assure h...
22 October 2009
The Alien Life
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The concept of the “alien God” is an important element of Gnostic Christianity. The following extract from Hans Jonas provides an introduct...
12 October 2009
Home Schooling
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Baroness Delyth Morgan [a person called "Children’s Minister"] commissioned a report [at great expense to taxpayers] on home educa...
20 August 2009
No such thing as genius
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The commonsense view of invention ... overstates the importance of rare geniuses ... the question for our purposes is whether the broad patt...
04 August 2009
The right not to be killed
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Debbie Purdy is a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who thinks she may, in the future, wish to commit suicide with the assistance of t...
01 August 2009
Capital, freedom and the King's head
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Copy of a reply to an email from a person living overseas, who appears to have been a fan of my books for some years. What I have written i...
27 July 2009
The Killing Fields
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Watching, as usual, the least offensive thing I could find on the TV while I used my exercise machine, I found myself seeing The Killing Fie...
24 July 2009
1850: the watershed
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The rise of individualism prior to 1945 was not a simple matter. Probably the factors that would lead to its downfall were present from an ...
21 July 2009
Picking one's way through the debris
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copy of a letter to a person who came to one of my seminars You seemed to understand why what I say in my books, and my outlook in general, ...
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