John Cottingham
More Things in Heaven and Earth
In philosophical circles, it was once heresy to challenge Darwinian reductionism. That is now changing
God Gives Us Dignity, Dignitas Only Death
The Swiss euthanasia clinic claims to respect its patients’ dignity, but secularism alone cannot confer moral value on human life
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of “saving God” by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need saving – just replacing God with Nature isn’t enough
From Job to the Enlightenment
Susan Neiman’s reading of the Enlightenment is certainly distinctive, but also offers a courageous and uplifting attempt to tell the story as it is
I Think, Therefore I Am – An Individual
How the modern ideal of individuality can leave us adrift in a value-free world
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it