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Humbug conservatism
I’m currently re-reading Edmund Fawcett’s recent book on conservatism in advance of reading John Keke’s new book ‘Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the…
Jan 13, 2023
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November 2022
Move the point, shift the field
In his talk on the will in Talks to Teachers on Psychology, William James outlines a distinction between inhibition that is negative or repressive and…
Nov 27, 2022
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October 2022
Restoring the national safeguard
As another working week beckons I thought it would be appropriate to share a comment William James relates in his essay ‘The Gospel of Relaxation’. It…
Oct 23, 2022
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Locke's freedom
Locke’s liberalism is boring, said Michael Oakeshott. Or I say, paraphrasing Oakeshott. I include Locke’s portrait to confirm it. The moderate…
Oct 19, 2022
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July 2022
Hume's philosophical quietism
‘According to the epistemic defeatist’, says Richard Pasnau in After Certainty, ‘ if one can aptly speak of beliefs as being rational at all, those…
Jul 2, 2022
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April 2022
Place and politics
The use of spatial concepts - space, extension, locality etc - in politics is not a given. There are different possible ways of thinking about space in…
Apr 10, 2022
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January 2022
Philosophy and common sense
Galen Strawson on the importance of common sense in philosophy: Common sense is fundamental in philosophy, but it doesn’t follow that view taken to be…
Jan 30, 2022
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Tradition
In his sermon He Has Set Us Free, John Webster gives a very good summary of the virtue of tradition: In and of itself tradition is both innocent and…
Jan 23, 2022
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History and opinion
In a previous post I provided an excerpt from Martyn Thompson’s book on Oakeshott’s philosophy of history on his concept of the pastness of history and…
Jan 20, 2022
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Oakeshott and the historian's mistake
A section from Thompson’s recent book on Oakeshott’s philosophy of history and the the misunderstanding of both postmodernists and certain realist…
Jan 18, 2022
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Brevity
In the introduction to his recent collection of pieces Theological Territories, David Bentley Hart comments that the majority of the content is from…
Jan 14, 2022
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December 2021
Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the American revolution
Continuing to indulge a form of laziness, what follows is an extract from J.C.D Clark’s Thomas Paine book in which Clark points to the accidental and…
Dec 1, 2021
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