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Free Thinking : The city

From Liverpool, playwright Esther Wilson

All entries in this category: How Are We To Live

  1. Embrace neuro-diversity or adopt genetic cleansing?

    • Esther Wilson
    • 10 Oct 06, 10:34 AM

    I'd like to introduce two guest bloggers.

    Dr. Glynn Thomas - a consultant psychiatrist who has worked for the National Health Service for over thirty years & his wife Andrea Earl -a playwright & also writes for TV.

    Gynn & Andrea hope their blog inspires much freethinking debate.

    As we watch our two year old toddler joyfully playing with his favourite cars and garage set as he utters his first words we are appalled at the existence of state backed mechanisms to cleanse society of his kind.

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  1. A global city?

    • Esther Wilson
    • 8 Sep 06, 06:53 PM

    There have been a number of posts on 'truth' - what it means and whether it's possible - they've sparked interesting debates and have given us room for thought

    Johnathan Ree but on a basic level of being mis-informed and duped by those in positions of power we have to be pro-active. We have to examine what we are told more carefully.

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  1. A City of ideas?

    • Esther Wilson
    • 3 Sep 06, 12:06 PM

    Here is the second of my 'guest bloggers'.
    Roger Hill has lived in Liverpool since 1978 and works as a broadcaster, writer, lecturer, performer and consultant in arts and education. He's also a very good friend.

    THE IDEA OF THE CITY
    There are too many words about, and an abundance of expression neither guarantees the presence of thought nor freedom in thinking. In times when we inundate ourselves with self-expression it is reasonable to require an underpinning of ideas, for culture is surely more than a collection of individual outpourings, and needs for its efficacy a sustained engagement with formalized thought without which society cannot progress.

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  1. Philosophy In Pubs

    • Esther Wilson
    • 26 Aug 06, 02:52 PM

    Philosophy in Pubs meeting

    I thought people based in and around Liverpool would be interested to know that there is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss philosophical ideas.

    I've taken the liberty of copying a little bit of information from their 'statement'.

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