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THOUGHT: The World has recently descended into a fragile state.  ‘The World’ here means the human world, the procedures, institutions, methods, customs, civilities etc. which allow seven billion of us to “get along together”, after a fashion, on this planet...


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01/04/2022

Philosophy for Renewing Reason – 30

A catch-up on recent progress in Actimatics Since the concept of ACTIMATICS was introduced into these philosophy-renewal blogs two years ago, there has been some quiet progress in developing the new 100% abstract discipline. This instalment offers an outline account of the current situation. In many ways Actimatics might just […]
28/02/2022

Philosophy for Renewing Reason – 29

The attenuated state of today’s philosophy It is a strange fact that today homo sapiens is passing through a very difficult, dangerous multi-sided existential crisis, while, at the same time, philosophy —homo sapiens’ historic way of probing deeply into conceptual territory to get a broad handle on things— is in […]
01/02/2022

Philosophy for Renewing Reason – 28

The specialisation obsession in philosophy sits oddly in a world desperately needing generalised vision We are now struggling with two existential crises (The Pandemic and Global Heating) which have probably arisen, in the last analysis, from our neglect of thinking “in the large”. This has arisen from an extraordinary mass […]
04/01/2022

Philosophy for Renewing Reason – 27

This is the first Blog for the year 2022 and it comes after an anxious few weeks during which the Omicron version of Covid 19 has spread like wildfire. It reminds us there is no escaping the fact that humanity is now moving through Crisis Passage. (It is not only […]