Information as inaction
To be truly empowered we need both to better understand the information we are given, and to realise that the biggest abuses of information concern how it is used, not how it is gathered.
ReadTag: Reason & rationality
Are we optimists or pessimists?
Gloom is easily mistaken for intellectual depth. Have you ever seen a photo of a smiling existentialist?
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British politics and the lost art of rhetoric
Hilary Benn and others were acclaimed for their speeches in the Syria debate in the Commons. But if this was the House at its best, its best is not good enough.
ReadIs there sense in common sense?
The war between common sense and good sense is a phoney one, in philosophy, science and in life. No one believes that common sense is a sufficient guide to truth but likewise no one can even start the journey there without accepting some basic assumptions about logic, language and the world that are shared with passengers on the Clapham omnibus.
ReadMust we get to the bottom of things?
Simply accepting that there are no ultimate grounds for anything looks like a cop-out. Surely, we must have some good reason to trust the firmness of the ground on which we stand, intellectually?
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