One of my justifications for anarchism has been that the horrors of the twentieth century were only possible because there existed the centralized institutions of power that the ideologues could grab hold

What is most important to you? Years ago, my answer to that question was God, for I was very religious. In light of my belief system, this made sense – God should be the most important thing in my life.

The term 'racism' gets used in a variety of ways by different people, and those different senses of the word get conflated (that is to say, people switch from one use to another without noticing). In one

There is only one thing we pursue as an end in itself. Everything else we pursue is a means to this end. That thing is happiness. We pursue happiness for its own sake. Everything else we do is ultimately

This is a follow-up to my recent article 'Political correctness: self-imposed mental slavery'. After reading a few responses, I want to take this opportunity to clarify my position and make a few additional

I haven't even finished reading Marshall Rosenberg's book 'Nonviolent communication: A Language of Life', but I am so excited by this idea that I wanted to share it with you. The basic idea, as I understand

Let me begin by talking of my own personal experience. It does not pertain to what we generally call political correctness, but there is a clear parallel. I was raised in a very religious home, and had

Just over four years ago, having formerly been a devout Christian, my life was really shaken up as I became an atheist. I now faced the challenge of having to totally re-think my moral code. In particular,

Hi! My name is Sam Johnson, and I am glad to be joining the steemit community. I am currently studying maths & philosophy at Oxford University, and I am also an atheist, a libertarian, and an

Is the teleological argument for the existence of God convincing? Here is my take [Note: I wrote this a while back, but I'm still proud of it, so I thought it would be a good first post for steemit!]