Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The main reason that science has declined - that it has become absolutely, not just relatively immune from any form of evidence, inclu...

* Modern man does not believe in God or in gods; he believes in happiness or reduction of suffering. * Because he does not believe in ...

* The question is as follows: How does science get from: "Let's see how far we can go using just reason applied to observatio...

* 1. Things need to get worse before they can get better 2. People are not-even-trying 3. Humans are simple, dichotomous creatures 4...

* I may be missing something, but I have seldom (although not never) been troubled by the conflict of Christianity and evolution by natura...

* The Left - (Liberalism/ Socialism/ Political Correctness) has, of course, triumphed in the West - colonizing the elite intellectuals of ...

* The fact that slavery was all-but universal until a couple of hundred years ago is used as the standard, off-the-peg, number one knock-d...

* From: http://benedictseraphim.wordpress.com/2003/08/19/that-hideous-strength-chs-10-13/ * “I mean this,” said Dimble in answer to th...

* Modernity is predicated on the conviction (derived from Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' argument) that with the right system ...

* CS Lewis often pointed out the Christianity was added to and a completion of natural law and good paganism. Therefore much of The Goo...

* The mystery of the in-toeing (pigeon-toed) epidemic among young women continues: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/09/pigeon-t...

* I already knew, from his incomplete story The Dark Tower  that Lewis had read JW Dunne - and this was also an interest of Tolkien's,...

* There seems to be a hierarchy as follows: 1. Timeless, unchanging eternity percieved all at once - the perspective of God. 2. Eterni...

* The ancient (pagan/ non-monotheistic) view was that death was a bad thing because  the soul survived it and the state of the surviving s...

* The answer depends on how the question is interpreted. My interpretation is that society is happiest which would not swap their situat...

* As Adam Smith first made clear, continually-increasing division of labour is the key to continually-increasing productivity - DoL is nec...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2011/09/note-on-hobbit-government.html *

* There is a material  crisis, rooted in economics. The world is headed for a catastrophic (cataclysmic) collapse in material standards;...

* When social influence is conceptualized in terms of fields, as described in an earlier posting, http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2...

* Social Justice is the same thing as politics - Christian leaders should, please, stop talking about it. * Since Christian leaders ca...

* ( From an e-mail .) I see science as working within the assumptions of metaphysics - so that before any science is done there is an ...