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Religion, almo y el sentido de uno mismo

September 30, 2020 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

No todos pensamos como personas religiosas. Pero hay un sentido en el que los ateos todavía “sentimos” lo mismo que las personas religiosas. ¿Cómo? Bueno, todas las religiones abrahámicas sostienen que tenemos un alma, un yo interior, un “yo” que está separado de nuestro cuerpo y cerebro en funcionamiento. Los no creyentes no están de […]

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Keating shows Federal Labor a way out

September 24, 2020 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

Paul Keating has called on the Reserve Bank to help the Federal Government with fiscal spending. Normally governments offset their spending through either taxation or borrowing. But taxation is deflationary so is not an appealing option at the moment and there is a concern (largely exaggerated) about increasing government debt. Keating has essentially called for […]

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Religion, the soul and the sense of self

September 7, 2020 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

 We do not all think like religious people. But there is a sense in which we atheists still “feel” the same as religious people do. How? Well, all the Abrahamic religions hold that we have a soul- an inner self, a “me” that is separate from our having a functioning body and brain. Non-believers disagree. They hold […]

Filed Under: philosophy, religion

Financialization of Capitalism

September 2, 2020 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

Financialization means that today’s capitalism is fundamentally different from the capitalism that governments had to regulate 40 years ago. The financial sector has always been important to capitalism. And the work of French economist Tomas Piketty shows capitalism has always had a general tendency to increase inequality absent corrective government interventions. This is simply because the […]

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Anger (by Mischa Merz)

August 27, 2020 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

Every day during the pandemic, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has updated us on the state of play with the Corona Virus. Case numbers, deaths, numbers tested, mystery cases, clusters and hotspots. It’s not a soapbox occasion by any means. He’s not trying to win anyone over to any political agenda. He mostly pleads with people […]

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