Author Archives: Lewis Coyne

In his excellent and reasonably well-known book, An Inquiry into the Good (1911), Nishida Kitarō states: “Philosophical views of the world and of human life relate closely to the practical demands of morality and religion, which dictate how people should act and where they can find peace of mind.” Nishida says this as a matterContinue reading “Practical philosophy”

Two philosophers have dominated my attention from my undergraduate degree through to my PhD and beyond. The first is Martin Heidegger, and the second is his one-time student, Hans Jonas. I hadn’t encountered Heidegger’s work prior to becoming an undergraduate, and at that time was instead impressed by other great ‘Continental’ European philosophers: Hegel, Marx,Continue reading “Heidegger and(/or) Jonas”

The immediate background to this post is the electoral quagmire that the Labour party – to which I belong – currently finds itself. Labour has been out of power for eleven years, lost four elections on the trot (the last calamitously), has just lost a by-election to the ruling Conservative party and may very wellContinue reading “The Left, and Twitter’s role in its downfall”

Thanks for taking a look at my blog. My plan is to use it to keep track of – and hopefully develop – ideas, thoughts and reflections on issues that interest me. I expect that these will, for the most part, relate to philosophy, politics, technology, and nature (human and non-human), since those are theContinue reading “Welcome!”