why we should

Gerald J. Beyer. “Solidarity by Grace, Nature or Both? The Possibility of Human Solidarity in the Light of Evolutionary Biology and Catholic Moral Theology.” The Heythrop Journal 54.5 (2013): via academia Web Accessed 26 June 2026. [https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.12030] I am fairly harsh on Catholicism, that variation of Christianity with its origins as a rogue version of an imperial cult gone into universal…

In the beginning was the tool, and the tool was the world. The world was with us and we were the world. Seeing the world was a tool, we said to each other, “Aren’t we clever?” and immediately forgot what we were doing. In case we got in trouble. Some say, to their credit, they remember themselves, but then, immediately…

Haworth, Alan. “Genes and Citizens: Can Moral Philosophy Learn From Evolutionary Biology?” Res Publica (2001): via academia.edu. Web. 10 Sept. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011924516656 ABSTRACT: The claim that moral philosophers have something to learn from recent neo-Darwinian theory cannot be sustained -at least, not in the case of the three theses characteristic of the latter on which I concentrate. The first thesis,…

Stewart-Williams, Steve. “Evolution and Morality.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868810569?via%3Dihub [via Web] [entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). (2015) ISBN 9780080970875 : Web. ] 2015 was about the year I starting writing down notes about stuff with various thoughts and feelings, about a subject which I would later realise was boxed-in as ‘moral philosophy’. It took ages to realise…

The world goes on without each of us, beyond us. Below, the each of us can forget it all for a while, or reject it all for even longer, before it returns us all to ourselves, coming to us unbidden, with a wave. The world cannot go on at all, without us all attending to it, even as the each…

I have a certain care or consideration for believers. This may not be apparent from reading my less than supportive posts on the imperial cult that is Christianity, and especially the rogue imperial sub-cult that is Catholicism, statist moves which give us the definition of religion and its over-application to practices which might best be regarded as ‘worlding’ rather than…