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Continue reading →: Paperless postgraduate studies
The distance learning course in Philosophy is heavily reliant on students finding recommended articles and journals online. If, like me, you prefer to highlight relevant passages and make notes in the margin it is not as easy to do with downloads as hard copy. I am grateful to my local…
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Continue reading →: MAFS Australia
We are hooked on this reality show where strangers are matched by three experts, get married and try to build relationships that last. Some couples seem to click with their partners almost instantly, others struggle to find the good in the other person. At the dinner parties for the couples…
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Continue reading →: BT9 café
If you enjoy the company of young people out jogging, walking their dogs, or wheeling their infants about, or just meeting up with friends in a café on the Lisburn Road, Belfast, Trait is the place to be. Their coffee is good and they have a fine selection of pastries.…
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Continue reading →: Life is sweet
Life certainly feels sweet living in a newly renovated house with lovely neighbours in a country of culture and oodles of natural beauty. These privileges are not lost on me. My studies currently make me even more aware of the disparity between my lifestyle and those of people living in…
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Continue reading →: Earth belongs to everyone
Global Justice means that rights apply equally around the world. Nation states may engage in the struggle for economic dominance, world religions may try to impose their beliefs and code of ethics on others and wars continue to break out over territorial claims. But a recognition that being born into…
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Continue reading →: Monday closing
I often forget that La Bottega closes on Mondays, as do the bars on the Lisburn Road and the Ulster Museum. Luckily there’s no shortage of places serving good coffee in Belfast. Today I joined Richard, a former colleague, at Sojourn for a coffee and a catch-up. In town later…
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Continue reading →: Garrett Hardin – a curious opinion
It was easy to understand Peter Singer’s moral imperative to rescue a drowning child from a pond and, by analogy to see the moral obligation to do what we can to prevent starvation in distant parts of the globe. A different viewpoint is expressed by Garrett Hardin in a contentious…
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Continue reading →: Sofa so good
After a good deal of wandering around furniture shops we have now purchased enough items to furnish our bedroom and the open plan ground floor. The large oak table was the hardest decision. We ended up getting a table built for us. The choice of sofa was tricky. We ordered…
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Continue reading →: Global advantage
The globally advantaged use their superior position to influence the rules that govern international institutions – such as trade practices – which can facilitate further opportunities for increased advantage. The globally advantaged can threaten the abilities of others in distant lands to lead decent lives. (Pogge 2008.) Does this ring…
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