Posts Tagged ‘ philosophy ’

An Empathic basis for Moral Behaviour

3 September, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
An Empathic basis for Moral Behaviour

As I mentioned in my post at the beginning of this week on Human Goodness, I was contacted by a guy named Duane who had put in a lot of effort to track down the original owner of a media player he bought online, so that he could send it back to him, First of...
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The Meaning of Life – Only What You take With You

27 August, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
The Meaning of Life – Only What You take With You

42 of course is the answer to the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the Universe, and everything. Sadly, while the Great One, Douglas Adams, gave us the answer, he did not make so free with the question – so we’re a bit buggered there. However, I’m going to have a crack at...
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Twitter’s Virtual Coffeehouses and the Re-Enlightenment

25 August, 2010
By Raphael Fraser
Twitter’s Virtual Coffeehouses and the Re-Enlightenment

In a recent blog post, Atheist Climber wrote about an “Atheist Re-Enlightenment”. I thought it was an interesting notion, and he accompanied it by tweeting a link to the Wikipedia page on the Enlightenment. In the Atheist Climber article there is a discussion of the need for a re-enlightenment – and I certainly agree. What...
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More wonderful Stephen Fry

16 August, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

More wonderful Stephen Fry. This half hour video is well worth watching – repeatedly. STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.
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Magic, ghosts, and woo

29 July, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

Magic. Ghosts. Spirits. These are things that pop up in fairy tales and in children’s stories and tv shows & films. Sometimes even they’re debunked – for example in Scooby Doo (though I personally have never liked it) it’s always some guy with a mask and a clever contraption and some flashy chemistry –...
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