Bruce Charlton's Notions

* I do it myself! - examples are all over this blog: when I am trying to understand or explain God, I feel drawn into using physics-type or...

* Following on from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/jesus-was-literally-king-of-jews-by.html When his legal Father Jose...

* The beginning of an on-going mini-booklet in which I try to encapsulate my 'philosophy' of lecturing - which was implicitly the m...

* A perfect explanation for the hysterical, un-proportionate and unrestrained,  aggression of the modern, politically correct Left. The a...

* The Qui Tollis from Haydn's Paukenmesse  - starting about 2:27 . I only happen to know this because I sang tenor in the chorus o...

* This is an idea that, for whatever reason - but rather shockingly it now seems to me, has never crossed my mind: I mean the idea that Je...

* The title says it. Over the past 25 years or so, I have watched appalled as almost every person and institution that previously I respect...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-difference-between-conscientious.html *

* http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.co.uk/ *

* My family has been enjoying re-watching (on DVD) the 2008 BBC series of Merlin, each episode of which begins with a voice-over (from the ...

* When Christians think of God - we should do so from a dual perspective that he is both out-there - external to us; and also within us - ...

* Watching this today, it seemed to me that I understood the well-known parable properly for the first time; and it seemed to say almost...

* I think it likely that the concept of Original Sin derived from the philosophical insistence on the absolute/ infinite/ abstract 'Omn...

* From Byzantium by Judith Herren: Historians regularly ask why Christianity succeeded, how it won the loyalty of those who previously w...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-geniuss-journey.html *

* The most important period of my scholarship and study  ([was when] I retired to the woods... and just read, and read, and read, and read ...

* The official culture has always been somewhat second-rate, at best. So the biggest names, the most powerful, the most famous- at any give...

* The caption to be illustrated is: A bare-faced Bear giving alms to an eight-armed, armed, bare-armed Bear, bearing arms *

* There has been some discussion in recent years about 'smart drugs - designed to enhance cognitive function. Smart drugs are, indeed...

* In a new paper in Personality and Individual Differences , Michael Woodley has made the first estimate of the rate of decline in intelli...

* People, all of us really, are prone to talk of ideology as a cause; and those of us who recognize the decline of the West are prone to bl...