Bruce Charlton's Notions

* Since we are creatures of this world, we are motivated by a desire to attain pleasure and to relieve suffering; yet since we are transce...

* I observed some of you. But do you know what you are doing? I observe a benevolent feeling here. There is also a tenderness. At the beds...

* Things begin in one specific place at one specific time - and spread-out from there - things don't happen simultaneously in many pla...

* Without suffering and with nothing but pleasure; when each person was (somehow) independent and able to extinguish immediately all incip...

* Smoking cigarettes very probably causes lung cancer (although I am not so sure about arterial and heart disease - the effect size is so ...

* The fact that all large modern institutions are thoroughly corrupted by political correctness and secularism (including all major church...

* From Walker Percy: Lost in the Cosmos , 1983. * "In the age of science, scientists are the princes of the age. Artists are not....

* In the lives of most Christians past and present, The Church is grossly deficient, and we must make do with the best that can be managed...

* If, as I have said, intellectuals are to blame for the current malaise http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/03/jim-kalb-mini-disc...

* @  http://turnabout.ath.cx:8000/node/2900 James Kalb is perhaps the most insightful of current writers on political correctness, Liber...

* The characteristically modern malaise is alienation - detachment from the world, lack of a sense of involvement with life, a sense of un...

* In modern public life there is a weird dance between regarding individual peoples desires as overriding every other consideration yet be...

* I was recently re-reading my favourite Charles Williams novel The Place of the Lion and noticed for the first time that the lovers (Ant...

* When comparing successful writers from two generations ago - the likes of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis - with a near-equivalent from now - J...

* Christianity cannot be used - and the attempt should not be made - as a means to the end of good secular government. (For instance, ...

* One of the many extraordinary things about the Harry Potter series is the way in which the celibate and unrequited love of Severus Snape...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2011/02/legolas-gimli-and-key-passage-of-lord.html *

* In a nutshell I regard political correctness as mainstream leftist politics post-1965 . This marked the tipping point between the lef...

* The Good is the highest aim in a human life. (e.g. in Plato). It does not necessarily refer to God or to the Gods, but to what humans ou...

* ['The Book' so far...] * Political correctness, or PC, is now pervasive and dominant in the West. PC is not a joke, it is ...

* It is often remarked that the political right are remarkably accepting of trends which they regard as deadly, and prone as individuals t...