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As an ex-academic philosopher I feel the time has come to share the real-life value of that training. Philosophy is much too good  to be locked up in an ivory tower, and there is no concept in the formal jargon of analytic philosophy that can’t be put just as well in ordinary language. This seems to me a more suitable mind-set for an inclusive 21st century. Please come in to read, comment, argue and add your ideas.  

I’m still working on Spinoza – that most fascinating of philosophers, with a voice for our times, and ARCHIVES is now the home for all the contents of my former spinozauthor website.


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Contact me at mg-w@uclmail.net

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Certain habits
8th July 2019

In this second blog on the search for certainty and truth we think small.  Our habits might not seem to have much connection with human truth, let alone absolute Truth.  But while most of them are riddled with uncertainty they’re a very significant part of our mind-set.   They can dominate our perspective, undermine our self-identity, define our progress in life and as an obsession imprison both ourselves and others.   

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Absolutely truthful
24th April 2019

Absolute Truth is objective, a state-of-affairs outside our animal selves which we can’t access. It lies, for us, in Cloud-cuckoo-land, beyond the scope of our existence as human organisms. Searching for it used to be the central theme of my life…

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