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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Extraordinary Times and the Wisdom of Ages
“…it’s one of these moments where you feel like an era has come to an end and the world is a little emptier,” so spoke the wisdom of Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, on the occasion of the passing of Olivia Newton-John. In a matter of only a few days, two Australian icons in…
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The Passing of Uncle Arthur
Stocker-Lohmann-French-Buch Eulogy for Uncle Arthur Arthur Edmund Sedgwick Ruckert 5 November 1930 – 25 July 2022 My role today is to pay tribute to a man known as ‘Uncle Arthur’, in regards to the four families which extended out on the family tree from the Ruckerts. Arthur Edmund Sedgwick Ruckert was a family man…
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The Ontological Compass
The Ontological Compass assists in mapping out our understanding of too many philosophical arguments which get conflated, and interpretations which overlap without clarity. It works on measuring out usual binaries in discussions, and provides the relational sense to these matters, avoiding meaningless cognitive relativism as well as out-dated absolutism. If there are any absolutism,…
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Acknowledgement of contact to the Lord Mayor: We demand multi-governmental solutions delivered
The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council’s Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents who know anything about public administration policy. Today, 34 days…
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The First Week of 2022
The first week of 2022, of “Januray,” as the artist wrote (image below), has passed, indeed! In Australia, after the first week of January in the new year, in the Covid-19 numbers we have 381,269 active cases, 3,979 hospitalised, 275 in ICU, and 2,319 total deaths (as of 10:30 AEST, 8 Jan 22). “Why,” we…
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Melbourne, Brisbane Southside, and Urban Development
I lived in Melbourne for a decade. Coming from Brisbane, what struck me is the largeness of the diverse landscape. The foliage and species differed, as well as the contours, but diverse suburban landscapes were paralleled in Brisbane, at a different scale. You had a grander ‘intercity’ region which the streetscape reminded me of South…
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Range of Personal Semantics
We all speak of person and personal where meaning is entangled. Philosophy over millennia has precise terms to reference person. This is a model which will help to untangle our imprecise usage. The terms reflect technical debates mired in reflections, binaries, and boxes. The key here is relationship. How one person thinks are related…
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Rick and Racheal in the Year 2021
This is a repost from 6 October 2017. A film review of ‘Bade Runner 2049’, and where the plot begins in the year 2021. It is applied philosophy which has something to say about human connections. It helps us think about what is humanism. What hits me about the conclusion of the blade runner saga,…
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Julian Baggini’s Idea of Dialogue and Academy’s Isolation for Independent Scholars
“One of the many paradoxes of higher education is that while it is dedicated to the production of new, often ground-breaking ideas, its institutions perpetuate obsolete practices from previous centuries…. Think of a typical journal paper in the humanities or social sciences. Most of its content is part of some ongoing intradisciplinary dialogue, responding to…
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Dear Stan, a Call for Journalists to Call for Self-Reflecting Political Education
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-10/us-toxic-politics-started-long-before-donald-trump-arrived/13042856 Dear Stan, I have been a cultural and social historian in relation to the ‘American challenges’ for many years. While I appreciate your moderating commentary, I felt that you keep missing the bigger picture for the capacity to educate people on their own belief systems, and why they become so wrong in their judgements…