In Search of Freedom
Video of debate at the How The Light Gets In Festival with Hannah Dawson, Hilary Lawson, Paul Broks and David Aaronovitch hosting
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Tag: Free Will
The hope in France’s shame
You cannot separate who you are from the culture in which you developed. Society is not a mere collection of atomised individuals. We are more than simply all cut from the same cultural cloth – we’re all part of the same fabric.
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Free will v Determinism
Video of my talk for the Weekend University.
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How narrative leads us astray
While the narratives we like tell tend to be more like Hollywood movies, reality looks more like the work of a Beckett or a Pinter. The more we tidy the tales we tell, the more they resemble works of fiction rather than truthful histories.
ReadTo die for an ideal
Mandela was not risking his life primarily for an abstract cause or principle. He risked it for his people. His individual life was worth risking because he never existed as a pure individual, only as a member of that people. He stood up for others because it was because of others that he was able to stand up at all.
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