Tag: climate crisis
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What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the existential challenges created by a world which is cascading towards systems failure. My assumption is that, as Charles Taylor puts it in A Secular Age, “Every person, and ever society, lives with or by some conception(s) of what human flourishing is” involving questions such as what makes […]
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Finding joy on a dying planet: failing to act as psychic self-defence and how to overcome it
I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post for some time. This reflects a certain unwillingness on my part to self-disclose past a certain limit; I’m happy to share my thought online but I rarely share my life. There’s also a certain unwillingness to grapple with the underlying question I intend to address here. In […]
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What does sustainable (digital) scholarship look like for individual scholars?
I listened to a thought-provoking lecture by Neil Selwyn this morning (Studying digital education in times of climate crisis) which offered a detailed and hopeful account of the situation in which we find ourselves with the post-pandemic ubiquity of digital education against a background of climate crisis. I was particularly interested in his discussion of […]
Mark Carrigan 