Month: January 2014

Friday frivolity..

As it’s nearly the weekend – I thought I’d post something less serious. I’ve been having some text chats (using ifaketext.com in case you’re interested) with dead philosophers… You can see these entirely fictional exchanges at: my tumblr : http://dispirited-dave.tumblr.com/ 

Spirit, Soul, Body, Mind: A Day Conference on Biblical Spirituality

Saturday 1 March 2014, 10.00am-4.00pm in Room TC103, The Park Campus, Cheltenham. For details take a look here: https://uniofglos.blog/rpe/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2018/07/5312_bibspiritbooklet_jan14.pdf 

Humanities Public Lecture – Tim Ingold

The next speaker in our series of Humanities Public Lecture is Tim Ingold, who will be speaking on ‘Lines and Weather’ on 31 January, Francis Close Hall TC001 (Main lecture theatre) at 7:30pm. Professor Ingold is Chair in…

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Self and Not-Self in Buddhism – a short reading of the Ananda-Sutta

A short podcast on issues of self/not-self in Buddhism: Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire. FEEL FREE TO VISIT/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP.. – Current and past students talking about Philosophy,Religion, Ethics, Religious Education and more.. (and…

Kamma, Rebirth and Ethics – with Ambalatthika-rahulovada Sutta reading..

A longer video – which looks at kamma and rebirth, before a reading of the  Ambalatthika-rahulovada Sutta, to think about kamma and ethics: (you may notice, I’ve got some nice new software for making this kind of resource – which…

Philippe Aries on Death in Western Culture

For students on our Love, Sex and Death module, but others may be interested.. Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire. FEEL FREE TO VISIT/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP.. – Current and past students talking about Philosophy,Religion,…

An Islamic Approach to the Environment

A conversation between Dr Maria Nita and Dr Roy Jackson on an Islamic approach to environmental protection:

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The Four Noble Truths

I talk about the Four Noble Truths: The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire. FEEL FREE TO VISIT/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP.. – Current and past students…

Access to Insight – looking at Buddhist Texts

How to access the Buddhist texts at Access to Insight – a really useful set of texts! Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire.   FEEL FREE TO VISIT/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP.. – Current and…

Buddhism and Pessimism

I talk about Buddhism, Suffering and Pessimism: FEEL FREE TO VISIT/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP.. – Current and past students talking about Philosophy,Religion, Ethics, Religious Education and more.. (and the odd cat picture..)