hilosophy is, etymologically, “love of wisdom”… Notice here a small point. It’s not knowledge of wisdom. It’s love. Think about this for a moment. If you have an object of love, you embrace it; if you lack it, you pursue it. Philosophy at its best is not just a matter of filling our heads with [...]

emember Richard Dawkins, prophet of the new religious atheism and author of The God Delusion? Dawkins has been criticised for his quasi-scientific but definitely ideological advocacy of atheism. In a thoughtful and interesting article, Melanie Phillips at the Spectator points out that last month in public debate Dawkins observed that “a serious case could be [...]

In the estimation, hear the calculation;In the definition is the proposition:Binding minds with knotted wording,Wrapping, twisting, thought-confining Let our words be free and fluid,Not dividing, undefining.Then our conversation is equivocationAnd origination merely duplication. 

We all know what it is to play warfare in mock battle, that it means to imitate everything just as it is in war. The troops are drawn up, they march into the field, seriousness is evident in every eye, but also courage and enthusiasm, the orderlies rush back and forth intrepidly, the commander’s voice [...]