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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