Cogitations

By David Edwards The Tear-Stained Robot Writing in the Guardian, Peter Singer, a leading figure in the animal rights movement, describes the confrontation between animal rights activists and researchers experimenting on animals: “This situation has →

“Q. You’re married? A. Right. Q. Children? A. Two. Q. How old? A. The boy is two and a half, and the little girl is a year and a half. Q. Obviously, the question comes →

By David Cromwell There is an intense feeling that we all experience during our best moments that life has meaning; that it is priceless, and filled with immense potential. The seventeenth century French philosopher Blaise →

By David Edwards Truly, Madly, Deeply – Above All Madly British people are not good at happiness. According to research published in 2002, around one-third of British people suffer from serious depression at any one →

By David Edwards The Catastrophe Of Corporate Work My early sense that people had a tendency to trade their authenticity for a socially approved, false version of happiness was reinforced mightily when I entered the →

By David Edwards Personal – Political Many of the dissident philosophers and rebels of the past like Rousseau, Rocker, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Emerson and Fromm wrote often about the personal experiences, motivations and concerns that informed →