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Learning, Participation and After Virtue

Posted on 25th October 201326th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Learning, Participation and After Virtue

What makes a good person? This is an old and important question.  Philosophers and theologians through the years have sought an answer including Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kierkegaard, Newman, Nietzsche and others. Alasdair MacIntyre provides a useful analysis of the history of thinking on this question and the current state of moral philosophy in his books…

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Learning about Thinking from James Joyce

Posted on 30th December 201128th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Learning about Thinking from James Joyce

In my view one of the best ways to study learning and thinking is to look to literature and in this arena one figure stands out for the manner in which he conveys the human thought process in print. I am of course referring to James Joyce. In this short review I present some aspects…

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My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell

Posted on 18th November 200927th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell

I am reading a wonderful book called My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell – I picked up a 1959 first edition in a wonderful second hand bookshop, Trinity Books in Carrick On Shannon.  This is like a beginners guide to Russell by himself and, in it he traces his thinking down through the years.There is…

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