Modernity and Its Discontents Three Dangerous Propensities of Modernity The extraordinary developments of our Scientific-Technologies have created unprecedented possibilities in both positive and negative scenarios. In all areas of human enterprise from genetic manipulation to social control, to the unknown…
Skellig Fragment Fragment of a document recently rediscovered in a remote location on a small island off the Atlantic coast of Europe. Held in private ownership for specific reasons (Translated from the Latin Language and slightly adjusted for modern understanding)….…
The Failure of Imagination The Three Laws (Renumbered) 1. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. When a…
Since 1995 the United Nations have organised a regular series of global meetings with the title COP (Conference of the Parties). These meeting have been established to try and address some of the major existential environmental threats to the future…
Hannah Arendt On Violence: A Reappraisal of Her General Theory of Violence By Seán English On Violence[1] by Hannah Arendt was first published in 1969 and is in many ways a child of its time, reflecting the issues of the…
The Great Illusion by Norman Angell (1910)(Revisited) By Seán English La Féile Bríde 1 February 2023 Attempts at Constructing a Viable International Peace System: The Failure of the Peace Movements A number of very prominent and well know anti-war activists…
Tolstoy’s Views on Religion, Jesus and the Council of Nicaea Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian author and pacifist, became a deeply religious person in his later life. He believed himself to be a fully committed Christian in the sense that…
