Stop, think, chew
Rather than looking for secular surrogates, we should look for other ways to cultivate the virtues that ritual promotes. Such practices need to be at least as embedded in our daily routines as prayers are for believers.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery
FOOD AND MARKETS – OXFORD, 11-13 JULY. I’m giving a talk at this year’s Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, on the Saturday afternoon
ReadSALON North Gets Up Close to Personal Taste
HARROGATE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS – 11 JULY. SALON North Gets Up Close to Personal Taste. An evening of three speakers, each given 30 minutes to engage the audience with their subject, interspersed with intervals allowing time for a well-crafted gin and tonic. With me talking about The Virtues of the Table, plus author and musician Daniel Rachel and “bibliotherapist: Ella Berthoud.
ReadBusiness Matters
BUSINESS MATTERS – BBC WORLD SERVICE. I was on Friday’s programme talking about the woman who sued the Ritz for her gambling losses with Roger Hearing.
ReadWhat happens when empathy isn’t enough?
Although empathy gets morality going, it is not where it ends. Once it’s up and running, we use our heads to work out the fairest ways of balancing the needs of all. Empathy is thus the base camp of ethics, whose peaks lie elsewhere.
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