We cannot get outside this bone-cage skull nor look from eyes other than our own.

You can't extract a theory of morality from a past culture without taking into account its cultural setting, the embedded and assumed values

Dalrymple’s criticism of sentimentality goes beyond these matters. He finds the cult of emotional expression to be especially offensive.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein came up with a lovely concept in her early novel The Mind-Body Problem: the mattering map.

The latest play to be streamed this pandemic was Shakespeare's Coriolanus, which I studied for A Level a long long time ago.

It was John Stuart Mill who first said it would be preferable to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

It's not only philosophy and psychology, politics and sociology that I've been reading these last weeks and months. I've read novels too....

If you were in need, and someone helped, would their help be more valuable if they acted out of compassion rather than duty?

The world turns. I try to turn away. I cannot. So, distraction... a story... the start of a story from years ago...

The other day I attended an online event about equality, asking if equality is even possible.

The fine people running the course that I will be starting in September have given us a three book starting list.

Lonely. Sometimes. Now, for the first time in weeks. And why? Because I cannot stay alone.

Can you see the pigeon in my lilac tree?

To seek to escape from the darkness is just another modern twist on the ongoing attempt to flee the self.

This post will appear angry and bitter, I fear. Self-righteous too. For that is how I feel and perhaps my self-edit facility is turned down.

I thought it would be useful for me to try to consolidate some of what I have picked up in the light of the question we will be discussing.

Wonder is medicinal for those with psychic gaps at core. Wonder reminds us of the possibility of who we are.

He lowed in subdued excitement, moved, it seemed, by the pressure of bodies, and tried to interest his herd in pleasures of a carnal kind.

The Sixth C.

The Crone Manifesto