The Philosophical Muser

  1) Love and virtue At a human level, if Jack falls in love with Jill, then that love isn’t a virtue, it’s a feeling. But we are told by Je...

  The extreme left and extreme right who continue to dominate the headlines may be extremely opposed in viewpoints, but they are highly alik...

Some people are getting agitated and hostile at the pumps. Now, I know the cost of living pressures are tough, and I sympathise. But what we...

Criticisms of one misjudged thing often mirror the properties of criticisms for other misjudged things. Think of the critique of socialism a...

  The world can be split into 3 groups of people   Those who know less than they need to. Those who know about as much as they need to. Thos...

When it comes to goods and services in the free market, four things will happen:  1) Increase in Supply 2) Decrease in Supply ...

  As I argued a few years ago in my blog about the Easterlin Paradox , individual happiness is fairly hard to measure, and global happiness ...

As I was cycling through the city earlier this evening, I felt my regular lament at the ugly sight of graffiti tagging that spoils so many b...

Scientific and technological progress is accelerating so quickly that I regularly reassure my readers that the coming decades will bring unp...

  I think Jimmy McGovern’s The Street is one of the best British TV dramas ever. One of the many memorable episodes, like the one I rewatch...

  “God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble.” (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5) From my experience, humility is one o...

  If you’ve dipped into ancient Christian philosophy, you might have come across Boethius’ idea of how eternity is the simultaneous and comp...

  We keep hearing about increased anxiety in young people, and an increase in perceived victimhood. This might not be so strange except for ...

  A feminist asked me what I think of feminism, so I told her a joke: Why was the fraction nervous about marrying the decimal? Standard ...

  Sometimes with beloveds I wonder, through an economist’s lens, what kind of a find he/she is in terms of numbers? 😃 That is to say, what...

It’s strange that so many people believe so many obviously false things (which includes excessive over-interpretations). Let me offer you a ...

  For years, I held the view that God is morally responsible for the creation story He chose to create. Given presumably an infinite number ...

  On this news item making the headlines - depending on the scenario, allowing/disallowing people with invisible disabilities to jump/not j...

Many adults seem generally comfortable around children, but I observe other adults who look very self-conscious trying to relate to and conv...

  A lot of people don't believe that God answers prayers. I will show you why we can be reasonably sure He does. God answering prayers i...