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Autonomous Beings or Helpless Puppets?

August 22nd, 2013

The BBC ‘News’ website yesterday carried a feature about a household of four people in a ...
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What the hell is going on in Texas? American women are losing the abortion battle. A couple ...
Why you should boycott self-service checkouts

August 28th, 2012

Self-service supermarket checkouts drive me crazy! Seriously. Why would the voiceover woman imagine that having been out into ...
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"The good tends always to outweigh the bad: it just takes longer to get itself organised." Alain ...
Tokens of brokenness

August 17th, 2011

A strange new museum opened in Covent Garden this week. Its displays include prosthetic limbs, a ...
On the Lines
"Marriage spells the end of ultra-individualism. In a mindset where self-realisation is the ultimate good, a ...
We have given things priority over persons, we have built a civilisation based on things rather ...
NewSong: Dependence

May 28th, 2010

I don't want to be a burden. This is often seen as the clinching argument in the ...
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Reading between the lines: Autonomy

April 6th, 2010

It is only by the exercise of autonomy that our lives become in any real sense ...
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