Bruce Charlton's Notions

* I have been, very belatedly, hooked by the Harry Potter series; which initially I was indifferent-to, or mildly hostile about. It requ...

* Short answer, because there is nothing to underpin modern discourse. One-step reasoning is scaffolding cantilevered over an abyss of n...

* Excerpted from Nihilism by Seraphim (Eugene) Rose, circa 1962. (Emphasis added by me) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/nihilism...

* From The History of Middle Earth Volume 10 - edited by Christopher Tolkien - excerpted from pages 330-333. * With regard to King Finrod...

* "The philosophy of [the Fuhrerprinzip - leader-principle] is that each organisation is seen as a hierarchy of leaders, where every ...

* When I used to write about IQ (general intelligence) differences between groups, I found that there were two basic assumptions towards t...

* Being himself a creative genius of a high order, Tolkien felt a temptation of pride which was perhaps greater than for most. In his de...

* The pride of intellectuals is a powerful thing. Indeed, after a certain point, it becomes the only thing: since pride is what holds them...

* From JRR Tolkien "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" in Morgoth's Ring: History of Middle Earth volume 10 (edited by Christopher...

* Modern secular politics polarizes into two ultimate ideologies, which (each being intolerable) typically alternate: Bureaucratic Altru...

* ...and of how it differs from most other people's ideas, is that I see PC as underpinned by psychology : specifically by hereditary...

* From Nihilism by Eugene (Seraphim) Rose c 1962  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/nihilism.html#2  Italics were added. * ...

* Today is when the Scotch celebrate the birthday of their national poet Robert Burns, and via this Scotch culture in general. One of th...

* From Nihilism by Eugene (Seraphim) Rose, written circa 1962 - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/nihilism.html#2 * The tota...

Since you can't do anything about it, why not just make the best of it? Why not exploit the situation instead of moaning about it? D...

* My main introduction to philosophy as a teenager was via the Bryan Magee television series Men of Ideas , then his book on Karl Popper -...

* At the Notion Club Papers blog: http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2011/01/free-will-purpose-prophecy-and.html *

* How can rulership be both wise (just) yet avoid corruption (for short term benefit, and/or the benefit only of the ruler or ruling group...

* How sick I am of hearing people say that they adhere to 'Enlightenment values'! What nonsense! * What was the Enlightenmen...

* ... can be found at: http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2011/01/imaginary-completed-notion-club-papers.html *

* To allow, indeed encourage, unlimited mass human migration is such a foolish, indeed clearly suicidal, notion that it is surprising to f...