REFLECTIONS ON PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE AND THE LANGUAGES OF ETHICS

in this talk recorded on Sunday August 8, Daffern talks about philosophy as literature and examines the work of different philosophical thinkers including Aristotle, Ibn Rushd, Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Nietzsche, Hegel, Adorno and others. How do different literary styles facilitate the expression of philosophical ideas? Daffern also quotes from his own Philosophiae Religionis Principia Mathematica from the section on ethics, to discuss whether a religious mathematics can shed light on the ethical dilemmas of philosophy. In our time of turbulence in the current world, where we are facing major planetary challenges, including the Pandemic (of still unknown aetiology), the catastrophe of Brexit (whose full effects have not yet been felt), the realities of global warming and their impacts on major weather disasters such as forest fires and floods and drought, and the still unsolved wars of countries such as Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and other global conflicts rumbling on and on.. the author examines head on the