HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 37 articles in category 'Philosophy'. Talking with the animals Prof. Dr. Doolittle meets Prof. Dr. Wittgenstein. Chaos ensues. Richard Law UTC 2026-03-10 11:14 Words: 5,047; reading time: 22 minutes The sleep deprivation of the woke Dr Nietzsche will see you now. Richard Law UTC 2022-07-31 10:03 Words: 3,352; reading time: 15 minutes Over the waterfall Avoiding the rending pain of re-enactment. Richard Law UTC 2020-03-02 12:52 Words: 473; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for August Quote: Arthur Schopenhauer Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Image: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness. UTC 2019-08-01 07:32 Words: 774; reading time: 3 minutes Matter and light Clearing away legacy thinking about colour. Richard Law UTC 2019-07-19 12:22 Words: 2,068; reading time: 9 minutes Blasphemy redux The unpleasant face of secular piety. Richard Law UTC 2018-11-06 16:23 Words: 1,407; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2019-04-15 Lottery wins Coping with divine rejection – a sufferer writes. Richard Law UTC 2018-11-04 10:47 Words: 1,290; reading time: 5 minutes 5 May 1818: Marxmas The 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Still crazy after all these years. Richard Law UTC 2018-05-02 06:03 Words: 5,175; reading time: 23 minutes Updated on 2018-05-05 A Christmas Carol revisited The time travel subtleties of Dickens' remarkable classic. Richard Law UTC 2017-12-24 11:15 Words: 2,805; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2023-06-27 Who's afraid of Immanuel Kant? 230 years of the Critique of Pure Reason Richard Law UTC 2017-04-23 16:38 Words: 648; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for December 2016 Quote: Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality. Image: Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione. UTC 2016-12-01 01:02 Words: 381; reading time: 1 minute Rolling noiselessly through the void A meditation upon Saint Lucy's day, data adjusted. Richard Law UTC 2016-12-21 10:14 Words: 319; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for October Quote: René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation III. Image: Edward Hopper, Automat. UTC 2016-10-01 01:02 Words: 167; reading time: 1 minute Brian Cox: the zombie staggers on Back in your box, Jean-Jacques! Richard Law UTC 2016-10-10 09:37 Words: 634; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Marianne Hem Eriksen, Doors to the dead; T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton. Image: Martinus Rørbye, Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested. UTC 2016-09-01 01:02 Words: 391; reading time: 1 minute The fine art of wonderment The Vincent van Gogh guide to Platonic astonishment. Richard Law UTC 2016-06-22 11:22 Words: 2,494; reading time: 11 minutes Updated on 2016-06-25 In search of lost timelessness That midnight feeling. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-10 09:47 Words: 1,482; reading time: 6 minutes Quote and image of the month for March Quote: Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind. Image: Albert Edelfelt, Good Friends, Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt. UTC 2016-03-01 01:02 Words: 177; reading time: 1 minute Lenten thoughts, newly assembled As Christians come to the end of Lent, a period of self-denial and reflection, we ask the question: is it good not to spend money? Richard Law UTC 2016-03-18 19:17 Words: 1,023; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2016-03-24 Quote and image of the month for February Quote: Fink et al., The Oasis of Happiness: Toward an Ontology of Play. Image: Benjamin Williams Leader, February Fill Dyke. UTC 2016-02-01 01:02 Words: 315; reading time: 1 minute Nathan's rings Lessing's Nathan, not called 'the Wise' for nothing. Richard Law UTC 2016-01-18 16:14 Words: 925; reading time: 4 minutes The dismal science Still guessing after all these years. Richard Law UTC 2016-01-06 16:04 Words: 66; reading time: 1 minute Souvenirs Which is real, the souvenir or the memory? Richard Law UTC 2016-01-03 20:02 Words: 129; reading time: 1 minute Rockers do it better Stylish exits by those two rockers, Lemmy Kilmister and Arthur Schopenhauer. They'll be back! Richard Law UTC 2016-01-03 15:21 Words: 859; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2016-01-09 Quote and image of the month for December Quote: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Image: Modesto Urgell e Inglada, La vuelta del entierro/Returning from the burial. UTC 2015-12-01 01:02 Words: 174; reading time: 1 minute Close shaves of the Scholastic kind We use Alexander's sword to cut the Gordian knot of William of Occam's non-existent razor. Richard Law UTC 2015-12-14 07:18 Words: 1,140; reading time: 5 minutes Engaging God: God help us! After the atrocities in Paris, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, 'engages God' on a walk. What have we done to deserve this? Richard Law UTC 2015-11-22 08:09 Words: 873; reading time: 3 minutes Enlightenment redux Brendan O'Neill calls on us to fight for the Enlightenment. Don't bother: it's dead and gone. Richard Law UTC 2015-11-19 13:53 Words: 5,442; reading time: 24 minutes Updated on 2016-02-10 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's NBFF Rousseau befriends an extremely rich autocrat who wants to use mathematical skills to control the world. Richard Law UTC 2015-11-04 09:00 Words: 124; reading time: 1 minute Mars will now say a few words The God of War speaks on the impending Armistice Day, 11.11.2015 Richard Law UTC 2015-11-03 10:37 Words: 575; reading time: 2 minutes Fanatics: the good and the bad Jean-Jacques Rousseau's good fanatic: let's see how that worked out. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-24 10:44 Words: 1,908; reading time: 8 minutes Troubling the living stream Easter 1916: The stony heart of fanaticism as seen by W.B. Yeats. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-19 07:11 Words: 1,742; reading time: 7 minutes Nietzsche's birthday Friedrich Nietzsche would have been 171 today, so let's dig out one or two of his undeservedly neglected poems to celebrate the occasion. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-15 09:03 Words: 415; reading time: 1 minute Rousseau in Nature He's on the stagger still, this time in two Danish universities. [corrected 17.10.2015] Richard Law UTC 2015-10-15 14:12 Words: 447; reading time: 2 minutes Rousseau staggers on Latest sightings of this website's favourite zombie. Some people seem quite shocked. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-11 14:15 Words: 132; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Blaise Pascal, Pensées sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets. Image: Hubble, the Pillars of Creation. UTC 2015-09-01 01:02 Words: 237; reading time: 1 minute Bye bye, democracy. Hello, general will. We seem to be reading more and more these days about the limitations of democracy and the need to take decisions for the common good. All this can only mean one thing: the zombie has awakened and is walking abroad once more. Its name? Jean-Jacques Rousseau. … Richard Law UTC 2015-09-28 13:24 Words: 3,260; reading time: 14 minutes
