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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

From John Gray to Michel de Montaigne



Today I came across the above video of British political philosopher John Gray discussing faith, progress, immortality and the human condition with Revd Dr Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. I haven't yet read enough about him to figure him out but I do get that he doesn't believe in the idea of progress, neither the humanist nor the religious Teilhard de Chardin-ish version, and though he seems agnostic, he's anti-science as well. Some of his books ... The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death ... Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (see a review of it by A, C. Grayling) ... Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (see a review of it at OnEarth magazine).

But on to someone I like more :) .... Montaigne. There's a podcast about him at Philosophy Bites - Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne - that reminded me of a past kind of fun video on him, Montaigne on Self-Esteem - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness .....




1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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Please find a remarkable Understanding of death via this reference.

www.easydeathbook.com/purpose.asp

Plus essays on how our individual and collective mis-understanding of death (and our heavy taboo against ecstasy) inevitably creates our deadly politics.

www.dabase.org/p5egoicsociety.htm

www.beezone.com/news.html

www.dabase.org/2armP1.htm#ch2

www.beezone.com/AdiDa/jesusandme.html

www.aboutadidam.org/newsletters/toc-february2004.html

www.adidamla.org/newsletters/toc-aprilmay2006.html

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