Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, New Year – what an exemplary spending spree. But the advertisements showed just how happy and popular we would be: it’s only failures who can’t afford it and miseries who opt...
Note we have carrots, also sticks. Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, New Year – what an exemplary spending spree. But the advertisements showed just how happy and popular we would be: it’s only failures who can’t...
The unending change of our experience of life in the world is exactly caught by the observation of Heraclitus, the unrepeatable step into a stream. Of the ancient elements it is water that exemplifies fluidity....
Sofia 143 (March 2022), titled ‘Thank You, Life!’, had on its cover a lithe young man leaping with worshipping angels attendant. The biblical Jesus (an historical existence here assumed) is described both as an ordinary...
Sofia 143 (March 2022), titled ‘Thank You, Life!’, had on its cover a lithe young man leaping with worshipping angels attendant. The biblical Jesus (an historical existence here assumed) is described both as an ordinary...
‘As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport,’ — Gloucester in Shakespeare’s King Lear The religious problem of explaining pain is often reduced by blurring it in...
Edwin Salter examines why we find it so difficult to deal with climate change and suggests things we should do.
This document presents three recommendations each prefaced by numbered comments which lead towards it. In roughly 4000 words it offers a clear rationale for reform. The air of reasonableness with which it proceeds flies rather...
