by Peter | Feb 26, 2021 | Environment, Objective Thinking
It is wonderful that nearly everyone today agrees that the natural environment needs caring for. Ever since the first astronauts sent back images of our green blue planet surrounded by the darkness of space the awareness has grown that we can do harm as well as good...
by Peter | Feb 25, 2021 | Environment, Objective Thinking
We can all take actions either to improve the environment around us or make it worse. There is a lot of information available that shows us how to minimise negative impacts such as pollution and make positive steps such as making gardens or parks welcoming places for...
by Peter | Feb 24, 2021 | Environment, Objective Thinking
There are many who argue that we are facing such an emergency with the climate that ordinary respect for freedom of thought and speech should be suspended. Yet even in an emergency it is important to keep a cool head. Throwing a liquid onto a fire is not sensible if...
by Peter | Feb 23, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
Things are not always as they seem. For example, it might seem obvious that the earth is still and that the sun, moon, planets and stars orbit around it. For thousands of years this is what everyone believed, until Copernicus demonstrated that all the observations...
by Peter | Feb 22, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
Let us now consider the nature of thinking. A Self can be doing something, or having something done to it. In logical terms it can be a subject or an object. All thinking presupposes the existence of a subject, a being with some kind of awareness and mental activity...
