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In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 3, Part 3
By: Patrick It may be that the supposed virtue of being open-minded enough to change one’s mind is a relatively modern phenomenon. I often feel slightly repelled by small-minded people who have lived in small villages all their lives and … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 3, Part 2
By: Patrick A lot of people think of philosophers as quite odd fish, and rightly so. Often this has to do with the fact that they often try and convince you that tables are not really there, for example. Philosophy … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 3, Part 1
By: Patrick At this point it is worth taking a bit of a digression from the bickering and squabbling, specifically a more philosophical digression. I always feel more comfortable when the members of the society fall out over philosophical ideas … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 2, Part 3
By: Patrick My comment did indeed steer the evening’s discussion into a new and unexpected direction. It was notable that very little time was actually spent discussing the question that I had posed, for with a kind of painful … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 2, Part 2
By: Patrick So anarchism was the theme for today’s meeting. Leading proceedings was Pietro DeMarco, a bearded bankrupt with badly bloated bowels. Perhaps my alliterative goals have done something of an injustice to Pietro, so I should probably try and … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 2, Part 1
By: Patrick Artie died today. Or, maybe yesterday, I don’t know. The email from the secretary wasn’t clear. And I didn’t know Artie well enough to consider the details worth chasing up. A lot of our members seem to … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 3
By: Patrick Our final member that morning came in shortly afterwards. Luciano Corallo was one of Joey’s most devoted disciples. Young, handsome, passionate, he was one of the more militant enforcers of the primacy of the interpersonal in philosophy groups. … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 2
By: Patrick Joey generally refused to eat or drink at the places we hung out. When put on the spot by a particularly insistent waitress, he would begrudgingly order some green tea or something, but generally he would order nothing. … Continue reading
In Search of the Good Life: Chapter 1, Part 1
By: Patrick We never really worked. Work was for bums, not philosophers. Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness was our Bible. We got by, well admittedly we got by largely as we were all retired having worked bloody hard … Continue reading
Sunday, Around Midday (2)
By: Patrick Walking back to my car, And suddenly the present, uninvited, emerges. It’s a cloudless, sunny day. I take in the birds, the cars, The voices of a couple of neighbours On the other side of the road. … Continue reading