Virtues and vices are often seen as opposing forces in moral philosophy. In Aristotle's view, virtues are character traits that represent a balance or "mean" between two opposing vices. For example, courage is a virtue that exists between the vices of recklessness and...
Essay for Social Change
No Food to Eat. The Corrupt Thinking of Decision Makers
This is an image of my empty fridge today. Would a society be unhappy with the corrupt ways of thinking from managers in their decision making? Would Australian society be happy that many experts in different fields of learning are...
Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality
"Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism," Dr. Neville Buch" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bure7rSyM84 Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person...
Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. ...
A CONSCIOUS EXAMINATION
The Setting I write this report, first thing after showering and dressing, eating with honey-toast and drinking coffee, to the computer with the Word document, to record the thoughts in the semi-dream state, an hour or so before. The occasions of...
The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing...
The Critical Review of Tom Holland: Great Errors in Apologetics and Historiographies
This blog article is Buch, Neville (2025; a plan for a book). Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 3: Understanding Historiography: defeating the culture-history warfare over the false binary in ‘religion’ and ‘secularity’, Dr Neville Buch ABN:...
The difficulty Teaching the Undereducated on Social Media
A response by social media participant had initiated some preliminary research gathering. The response was to a post I had put up: “Both the culture and religion are in a strange, binary, process of synthesis—a tension, but...
The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...