Posts by Paul Monk
21
Dec
On 19 December, the ABC online ran an essay by Stan Grant under the title ‘With Christianity receding and many abandoning hope, toda...
02
Oct
The resignation of Peter Boghossian: What it shows about academic illiberalism
Peter Boghossian is a philosopher and teacher of critical thinking and ethics. He is an old friend of several members of the Rationalis...
25
Jun
Let’s briefly imagine
Let's, briefly, presuppose you hadn't fled,
Hadn't frozen in the headlights of my interest,
Then dashed off, in your maidenly dis...
12
Jun
It’s time to abolish the erroneous idea of sin
‘Sin’ is a word embedded in our language and culture. It has wide use. Uprooting it would be as difficult as uprooting 'sunrise' or 'su...
01
Jun
The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society
RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment,
03
Mar
Rethinking the human: On being accountable in the Anthropocene
In a quiet corner of my library is a book called Man and the Ecosphere. It's a set of essays from Scientific American, edited by Paul R...
19
Mar
Seneca’s classical wisdom on how to die
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was one of the more notable Roman philosophers. He was born in 4 BCE, which happens to be the same year that seri...
12
Mar
Heidegger on death, demise and Dasein
Martin Heidegger is notoriously difficult to decipher and has been accused by many critics of both obscurantism and anti-Semitism. He c...