From Heidelberg to Vatican and Auschwitz: hermeneutical pathways
From Heidelberg to Vatican and Auschwitz: hermeneutical pathways August 2022 As I’m preparing this...
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Category: Live philosophy
The individual v. the greater good
The individual v. the greater good November 20, 2019 Who is the individual within their society?...
Read MoreThe ‘Brain in a Vat’ thought experiment
The ‘Brain in a Vat’ thought experiment 7 March 2018 Arguably the most famous thought experiment on knowledge and reality, this exercise asks you to imagine that a mad scientist (or another entity) has taken your brain from your...
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Reality check
Reality check 4 February 2016 At the beginning there was wonder. Or so the story goes, according...
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Doris Lessing and the ‘war of the sexes’
Doris Lessing and the ‘war of the sexes’ 15 February 2016 On Valentine’s Day, the traffic of...
Read MoreOn Meaning
On Meaning, this little animal growing up inside until it eats us up or runs away 26 January 2016 There is something deeply alive and partly independent about meaning – and the way it occurs in our life – which never ceases to...
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At the Margin
At the Margin 25 January 2016 There is something of great potential (and valuable as such, in...
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Old joys for a New Year
Old joys for a New Year 7 January 2016 Wild joy this Christmas, to rediscover Mircea Eliade’s...
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Five Socratic Dialogues
Five Socratic Dialogues 11 November 2015 Some two thousand four hundred years after deciding to...
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Good luck for the new term!
Good luck for the new term! 1 September 2015 What better omen than a rainbow on my Philosophy...
Read MoreThe ‘spirit’ of flamenco
The ‘spirit’ of flamenco 27 June 2015 When he dances, something else moves him – duende, the spirit? The continuous background dialogue between the singers and the dancers – ‘ole!’, and all the gestures towards each other,...
Read MoreFrankenstein’s Elisabeth
Frankenstein’s Elisabeth 16 May 2015 The question of the self and identity may be more important in ethics than it is in metaphysics, because without personhood and ‘the other’, there can be NO ethics at all. That is why the...
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