why we should

Early in 2023 a Cardinal of the Catholic Church was buried in Sydney, Australia, amid tearful protest and weepy hagiography. I leave the description of George Pell’s life to others. The key I wish to turn here is the context for the choices that determines conscience: George Pell flew higher than any Australian priest, but he chose career over the safety of children…

Why we should discusses what is broadly called moral philosophy. It does so on the assumption that evolution is key. The first essay which sets this out is (from 2019): Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake? RSS feeds feed.xml or feed.json If you wish…

Self-care as salvation-- all authenticity but no responsibility Deborah Casewell in her aeon.co essay raises some notice on Karl Jaspers’ existentialist angst-mongering, how it has been mis-categorized (by Sartre) such that Jaspers as an inventor of the word existentialism he gave it away after losing control of the branding in the marketplace of ideas, but, Casewell reminds us, the “focus on the individual, the importance…

(not mentioning Paul Blooms' against empathy today) I am refering to a recent article by Lucinda Holdforth “The Problem with Authenticity (and Other 21st Century Virtues).” (The Guardian, August 2, 2023, sec. Books. ) It’s an edited extract from 21st Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy , published 1 August as part of Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest…

History-telling is the ability not to recall what somewhat said, though story-telling is important, but the ability to read the traces in their contexts, and the recursivity of this process amidst those contexts of telling that layer us between the lines of our lifes as we track to and fro. If interupted. Or even if interrupted by extinction and steel.