Bruce Charlton's Notions

* Pondering the current British discourse on the necessity for legalizing and regulating euthanasia, I realized that under the prevailing ...

* Among all the discussions of the fall of the West, and which civilization might take-over, there seems to be little attention paid to Ch...

* Perhaps the best known British writer on 'Time' during the 20th century was not J.W. Dunne himself, but his interpreter and popu...

* That's it really - but it is a point most people seem to miss. People don't spontaneously and en masse pick-out their cousin...

* "None of the characters, as Tolkien wrote the story, really understands the whole of what is going on. "Not even Gandalf. In...

* Supposing someone was to retreat from The World to The Desert in order to pursue higher spirituality... (The Desert could be physicall...

* From The Letters of JRR Tolkien - letter number 131 to Milton Waldman, 1951: The Downfall [of Numenor] is partly the result of an inne...

* When I was an atheist I didn’t feel any need for Christianity. I didn’t feel any need for it. I certainly felt alienated, but merely w...

* Tolkien's Numenoreans were mortal men - but they did not suffer illness, lived about three times as long as we do, and when it came ...

* http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/kanazawa-statement.pdf * "The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, am...

* From The Last Byzantine Renaissance , by Steven Runciman, 1970: '...what the later Greeks had to say in general was restricted by ...

* From The Tyranny of Liberalism by James Kalb, 2008. Page 94 (re-paragraphed): * The new religion, a system of moral absolutes based ...

* From The Byzantine Civilization by Steven Runciman, 1933 * They loved beautiful scenery. Gardens and parks and flowers were a delig...

* Given that neutrality is impossible nonsense, and that we ought to support the better against the worse, how do we discern goodies from ...

* What is the difference between good and evil characters in fantasy novels? There is a superficial difference which seems universal to...

* I have noticed that Leftists are very free with accusations of conspiracy theory. When evaluating some undesirable phenomenon, the opt...

* From The Tyranny of Liberalism by James Kalb  (2008: pp. 51-2): * Crude political expressions of scientism, such as Marxism, once wa...

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* When universities and colleges worked properly, or at least much better than they do now (which is 'hardly at all') - then they ...

* From The Tyranny of Liberalism by James Kalb (re-paragraphed): * Recent moral progress is an illusion. What has happened, in effe...

* I have previously posted on the concept that intellectuals in traditional (pre-modern) societies are de facto  'eunuchs' - htt...