Month: September 2007

Philosophy & Ethics Reading Group

I am pleased to announce our preliminary meeting will be next Tuesday (2nd October – Week 2) at 6pm in FCH bar.It will be an opportunity to meet each other, collate some ideas for our reading material, and…

In Our Time

The excellent BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time has returned after a summer break with a discussion on Socrates. You can listen to this at any time on the net and, for one week only, you can…

Gloucestershire Philosophical Society – programme

Hi – below is the programe for the GPS. I would encourage all RPE students (and others) to attend these – you will be made very welcome… [the guilt debate still continues at http://r-p-e.blogspot.com/2007/09/guilt.html ] Dave Gloucestershire Philosophical…

Natural (2)

Thanks to all students who took part in the Week Zero (Freshers week / Induction week) activities last week. They worked hard – both on the trip and back at FCH. Our trip to Westonbirt Arboretum allowed us…

Guilt?

This morning I was with our friends at BBC Radio Gloucestershire talking to John Rockley about guilt. We covered eco-guilt, parental guilt and charity use of guilt to get us to pay up. Two questions spring to mind…

Lectures from Oxford Philosophy Dept

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/johnlocke/index.shtml for an archive of the Locke lectures – very interesting listening..Dave

Welcome!

Just a quick post to welcome the new intake of Religion, Philosophy & Ethics students – who we meet tomorrow… On behalf of myself, Dee, Alison, Roy, Melissa and Nigel (and the others you will have from time…

RPE 307

For those of you keen to make a start on Beyond Good and Evil (and why shouldn’t you be!) we will be using the translation by Marion Faber, published by Oxford University Press. Translations do vary quite a…

For Nietzsche ‘Fans’

Check out the Nietzsche Circle. Their ‘vision statement’ is: ‘To create an intellectual and artistic community whereby individuals of similar spirit and vision may come together and explore Nietzsche’s philosophy, developing ways in which it can be transfigured.’…

Natural?

Hi. As part of our induction activities for new students next week, we shall be asking them what is meant by term ‘natural’: what does it mean to talk of an ‘unnatural’ practice – especially as an evaluative…