Dun’ Rantin... Index: Ecological Rants: Mostly original pieces using philosophic concepts to think about ecological changes De-centring the Carbon; or Turning the Carbon Clock Back (or Not) The Great Big (W)hole: essay of Aristotle and the environment The problem with Words: Or why the problem of meaning matters One way weave 1 Series on how we got in this mess, and what can One way weave 2 be done about it! One way weave 3 Political rants These are short essays on philosophers, all with a very modern political edge Where’s History Going Now? Or against whig histories Misplacing the Question. In praise of Neitzsche Just Whose Machine is it Anyway? Marx made relevant And it harm none. John Stuart Mill allowed his own voice Too close for comfort: The problem from Hobbes that haunts us all Dragons and Tigers: Why the two Machiavellis matter so much Philosophic Rants Essays on individual Philosophers, showing why they matter today! Why must I have an Identity?: Hume as you never have read him before Splitting the Image: or an introduction to some of Deleuze It’s That Plugging Thing! Or why one needs to need Foucault The Old, Old Problem: Part 1 This and the next look Spiinoza’s political theory The Old old Problem:Part 2 Fighting the good Leibniz fight: Leibniz theory of affects examined We do it for the children: Plato’s theory of education and politics Doing what we Ought : Kant as Deleuze’s rival The Taking of the Biscuit: Schopenhaurer and modernity Owning reality Original piece on where truth comes from Owning reality 2 History of Political thought Rants A brief and somewhat bias history of the concept of justice, from Plato to Deleuze Ping Pong;1: a brief history of apologism :Introduction with Socrates, Plato &Aristotle Ping Pong:2 The splitting of Virtue: Cicero and why he matters Ping Pong 3: Prisms: Plotinus and Augustine add new variation Ping Pong 4: Whither Now Justice Aquinas and Machaivelli attempt to develop these. Ping Pong 5:Nowhere in particular Moore and property Ping Pong 6:Absentee Law Makers Ping Pong 7: O England, O law! Finding Science and Nations Ping Pong 8: Ode to Winstanely. The Civil war and Political theory Ping pong 9: The three Threads: Post Civil war thought Ping pong 10: Miracles en masse:Pascal and the Miracle Ping Pong 11: making sense of the exception.: Essay looking at Spinoza, Liebniza and the Miraculous Ping Pong 12: The problem of Owning. How Locke’s theory of property got us in the mess we are in. Ping Pong 13: The heart of Mankind. Looks at Locke and the state of nature. Ping Pong 14: Never Owning What You Possess: Berekly and the problem of owning Ping Pong 15: It is all theirs after all: Hume’s answer to Berkley and why it matters Ping Pong 16: The Passionate Moralist: The innocent beauty of Hume’s morality Ping Pong 17: The Conjuring: Starts to consider Smith and his Moralities Ping Pong 18: The Twisting of Space and Time: looks at Smith, Justice and Tim Ping Pong 19: Permeable Membranes and Centres of Gravity: The origin of the Free Market Ping Pong 20: Two sorts of Freedom: Rousseau’s double take of Freedom Ping Pong 21: The Infantile and the Historian:Theories of maturity in Rousseau Ping Pong 22: In Quest of Maturity: Kant’s very subtle answer to Rousseau Ping Pong 23: Themes:Attempts to draw together the story so far! Ping Pong 24: A Notable problem: Looks at the problem of democracy and the American revolution Ping Pong 25: The resource revolution how the french revolution changes our idea of what a state was Ping Pong 26: Revolving Terror.Looks at the legacy of the Terror Ping Pong 27 : to Vindicate us all. looks at Burke and Wollstonecraft Ping Pong 29; The time and the Man: Looks at Napoleon Ping Pong 30: Futures Battle. Looks at Malthus and Ricardo and the types of futures they fore saw Ping Pong 31: The end of history (again). Hegel, the dialectic and the financial crisis Ping Pong 32: Bleeding History Dry. The reason why history has no end. Ping Pong 33:Going industrial; part one of study of industrialization Ping Pong 34: This is for Every One Now: part two of study of idea of industrialization Ping Pong 35: Resistance in the minor key: a study of the philosophic resistance to the machine And literature too! 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