Bruce Charlton's Notions
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Gambling and the corruption of modern Britain
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* When I was a child, official gambling was generally supported by pro-business conservatives, and opposed by socialists: by the Old Left. ...
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Monday, 15 June 2015
What is metaphysics? (And what isn't it?)
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* http://www.jrganymede.com/2015/06/15/when-people-are-actually-doing-metaphysics-but-suppose-they-are-providing-evidence-with-reference-to...
Introducing... The Endogenous Personality
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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-endogenous-personality-its.html *
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Carl Orff's 'other' scenic cantatas - Poems of Catullus, Triumph of Aphrodite
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* If you don't know them, you might like them - they are not much like Carmina Burana (or, only occasionally); but are highly dramatic...
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Psychopharmacology book recommendation - Psychiatric Drugs Explained by David Healy (2008)
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* If you are interested in psychoactive, psychotropic, psychiatric drugs - then David Healy's book Psychiatric Drugs Explained (5th Ed...
Reader's Question: How should a Christian view the concept of race and differences between racial populations?
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* My response: To answer this question concerning 'a Christian', it is clear that good, real, holy Christians have held all sorts o...
Saturday, 13 June 2015
I am now blogging at Junior Ganymede
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* I am very pleased to report that I have been invited to join the Junior Ganymede group blog, and have started posting: http://www.jrgan...
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Reader's Question: What is the proper definition of manhood?
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* My answer: It doesn't have a 'definition' because Manhood ultimately has a metaphysical explanation. I regard manhood as da...
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Friday, 12 June 2015
The metaphysical task: to know the truth of imagination by personal revelation, by impression.
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* Continuing from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-primacy-of-impressions-metaphysical.html ** People may feel that ...
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Thursday, 11 June 2015
The primacy of 'impressions': the metaphysical necessity for direct communication: wordless, imageless, by-passing the senses
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* Since I believe that bad metaphysics is at the root of many modern problems, we (almost-) all need to examine our fundamental assumptions...
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The special role of Mary the mother of Jesus, and John the Evangelist in Christ's work
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* It may be possible to summarize Christianity as aiming at the economy of Love; a world in which the primacy of Love is something perpetua...
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Owen Barfield - philosopher of The Inklings
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* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/owen-barfield-and-truth-of-imagination.html *
Conceptualizing National Socialism - a negative, reactionary definition
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* National Socialism specifically, and Fascism in general, has never been adequately defined - that is because it was negatively conceptual...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Susanna Clarke's collection of short stories (The Ladies of Grace Adieu, 2006)
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* Having absolutely loved her novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/review-of-jonathan-st...
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Read Miss Read
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* I have known of Miss Read's stories about the imaginary English village of Fairacre since the mid 1990s - they are excellent ligh...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2015
What can beat antiracism as the primary moral imperative? For sure, not anti-antiracism. (Clue: The only answer is Religion)
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* Decades of secular conservative, libertarian, reactionary, reasonable, humane responses to the insane evil of primary antiracism have bee...
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The intolerance of the Middle Ages - the future of Romanticism
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* Since the advent of the Romantic Movement with Coleridge and Wordsworth, it has been a counter-current of mainstream life to assert the t...
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Monday, 8 June 2015
The 'Overton Window' metaphor misrepresents the nature of Leftism
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* The conservative/ reactionary blogosphere has adopted the tern Overton Window to express the range of 'acceptable' (i.e. non-craz...
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Why do people believe the mass media, instead of their own knowledge and experience?
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* Anyone who has been vilified in the mass media will recognize that nearly everybody believes mass media accounts, even when they are cont...
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Sunday, 7 June 2015
Modern 'depression' (and 'bipolar disorder') is not an illness; more a personality type
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* There are two broad classes of 'depression'. Traditional depression can be called melancholia , or endogenous depression - it ...
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Saturday, 6 June 2015
Cancer is not a disease - it is a process, not a thing
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* I get the impression that many people are terribly confused about what cancer is - or rather they are just plain wrong about what cancer...
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