It is not difficult to learn how to meditate. There are only three essential ingredients - yourself, your time and your willingness to try. Read More

The ocean is important for the well being of all life on our planet, but because most of us live on land and focus on what we can see, it generally gets little attention. We are now paying the price for our neglect. Read More

According to moral absolutists there is but one eternally true and valid moral code. Absolutists of course know that the moral ideas and codes of conduct actually practised by people vary from time to time and place to place, but in their view the fact that a practice is considered acceptable by a social group does not make it morally right. Read More

Free speech is the freedom on which all other freedoms depend, for without the right to communicate ideas and information all other freedoms can be suppressed without protest or opposition. In the words of George Washington: "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter".  Read More

There are a number of kinds of meditation. These include concentration meditation, mindfulness meditation, reflective meditation, metta meditation and visualisation. Read More

One common definition of truth is 'a statement that corresponds with reality and logic'. However, this definition is complicated by the fact that there are two basic candidate views of reality. Read More

To speak of us having an innate morality can mean two things. It can mean that we naturally act in a moral way, or it can mean that we have an inbuilt ability to make moral judgements.  Read More

To the general public, a philosopher seems to be, roughly, a person who seeks insight into the nature of reality, and tries to live in accordance with this insight but in the practice of contemporary philosophy there remains little of this ambition to let a practical philosophy of life emerge out of theory.  Read More