Bruce Charlton's Notions

Why is the current Left (i.e. the post mid-1960s New Left) so dominant and powerful?  Since the mid-1960s the mainstream Left has transforme...

Traditional religions and spiritual philosophies have "all" saddled themselves with underlying metaphysical assumptions that rende...

Henry David Thoreau 's The Maine Woods is a posthumously-collected set of three essays about travels in that region in the middle 1800s...

In our organization we have a little Spanish chap who attends to all our training needs.  We call him "Instruction Manuel". 

Following-up on my post of a couple of days ago , where I described authors who did me some harm by being the wrong books at the worst time ...

Considering that I spent my working life deeply engaged with science (especially evolutionary biology and human intelligence and creativity)...

To live towards a future life, an after- life: to orientate our mortal lives in the expectation of immortality in Heaven - is this good, or ...

I haven't heard anyone talk about elevenses for quite a while, some decades; but the expression was at one time used almost daily.  As f...

I deplore the nonsensical trope that "books" are A Good Thing: only some books are Good - and a small minority.  Others books are ...

Discussed over at my Notion Club Papers blog .

There is no substantive difference between, on the one hand, the theology of orthodox-traditional Christian monotheism - with its Omni-God ...

At my Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss the question of why Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, spent so much time and effort on conducting Borom...

Geopolitics is everywhere, you can't get away from it, and it is nigh impossible to escape falling into engaging in it.  People do geopo...

Purgatory is one of those concepts that I regard as false, but having some truth behind it.  That truth is mortal Men differ greatly in good...

If we can all accept that being a (real) Christian entails making a personal commitment to the primacy of (real) Love as a value - while lea...

The vulnerability to "AI"-capture seems to run deepest among intellectuals - but this vulnerability extends across a very wide ran...

I live in a relatively leafy suburb containing many forest-sized trees such as oaks, beeches, horse chestnuts, limes - plus common sycamores...

One effect of modernity (and our atheist, materialist, utilitarian ideological assumptions) is that the question of Life has all-but disappe...

"The official story" is always wrong, and also  fundamentally misleading*.  And it probably always has been - albeit getting worse...

So much depends on motivation; but can it be improved?   Yes, I think so - but this is not easy or straightforward, and needs to be approach...

People confuse honesty with truthfulness.  Truthfulness implies a positive motivation to know reality - essentially for its own sake; becaus...