Let's call it 'The Lazarus Project'.

Fragile and broken?

Utilitarianism.

I'd like to claim that trust per se is foundational in the formation of social groups and in the development of the individual.

A look at two essays by William James, starting with 'On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings'.

There is, if you look, a wasp on that apple.

While trust may be fragile, trust* is a state of mind that is in a sense empty of preconceptions and full of potentials.

This adds another dimension to the bad faith dilemma.

Trust predicts, expects. It places a demand that it be honoured.

For the third time in just over a year my father is beginning the arduous process of recovery from major surgery.

Navigating a path between the devil and the deep blue sea is not easy, but that is the realm of responsibility.

I was stimulated to write about this here after reading Zadie Smith's excellent article in defense of fiction.

Visions: who has one now? The Fascists once did; the Communists once did; even Liberals once did.

The image is the Eros statue in Piccadilly Square - I walked past on my trip to the National Gallery.

In Japanese philosophy, according to Julian Baggini, this feeling sense is given far greater weight than in much of the Western tradition.

Like my post Evolution, this is an idea I was trying to get 'out there'. Again, I have had no joy. So, I thought I'd post it here.

It seems that it would be beneficial to draw more intimacy into the 'usual' integrity-focused way of things in many Western nations.

Unless we’ve defined it, pinned it down like a butterfly, we feel that it lacks something. But maybe that lack is what makes it so numinous.

As so many take to heart, and as a matter or principle, the rights of the individual, so they object to any intervention.

Seventy-five years before John Stuart Mill published 'On Liberty', Immanuel Kant published 'What is Enlightenment?'