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Essays, aphorisms, quotes and poems


Freedom - It Should Include Everything

Why - when we are rich beyond the dreams of any earlier generation - are we not free?

The Poor Cannot Afford the Generosity of the Powerful

Halldor Laxness teaches us that the poor rarely benefit from the generosity of the rich - which is mostly wasted on themselves.

Granny's Meat & Potato Pie

My Granny's meat and potato pie recipe... heaven on a plate.

Having Fun or Doing Our Duty

It can be our duty to have some fun suggest CS Lewis and Kant.

Revenge Begets Revenge

Aeschylus on the limits of justice.

The Eight Degrees of Charity

Maimonides offers one of the most important accounts of how we reconcile charity and justice in practice.

Death Comes Softly Shod

The poem Euthanasia by Elizabeth Jennings imagines life after assisted dying becomes normal.