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Mad Max: Escape From The Iron Cage

Mad Max: Escape From The Iron Cage

Imagine, if you will, the scene. The Enlightenment has defeated Religion, and its various champions meet to carve up the vanquished enemy’s territories. Philosophy takes the chair: ‘Right then, settle down everyone. Thank you. Now, let’s see...Religion used to offer ethics and laws.

Academia, Atheism, Capitalism, Christianity, Civilization and its D..., Communitarianism, Ecstasy, God, happiness, History of EmotionsJules EvansJuly 5, 2013 Comments

Set the controls for the heart of happiness

Set the controls for the heart of happiness

The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed there was no newsletter last weekend. Apologies. The reason for this is I have journeyed deep into the warm, pulsating heart of the happiness movement.

Academia, Adult education, Communitarianism, Community philosophy, Education policy, emotions, Enlightenment, God, happiness, History of Emotions, London Philosophy Club, Philosophy for Life an..., Philosophy Hub, Politics of Well-Being, Positive Psychology, Stoicism, PsychedelicsJules EvansOctober 19, 2012Comment

On English melancholy

On English melancholy

An academic got in touch with me last week, inviting me to a seminar on Stoicism, which was nice of him. On the seminar programme, he described me as 'an author of books on happiness'. Alas I've only written one book (one that was published anyway), and it's strange to have it described as 'on happiness'.

depression, Dreams, emotions, happiness, History of Emotions, UncategorizedJules EvansSeptember 2, 2012 Comments

Jerome Kagan: the best predictor of depression is being poor

happiness, History of Emotions, neuroscience, Positive Psychology, Psychology, scepticismJules EvansApril 29, 2012 Comments

Scrubbing up religion to make it fit for polite society

Catholicism, Christianity, Civilization and its D..., Communitarianism, Community philosophy, Consciousness, Cults, Dreams, Enlightenment, History of Emotions, Positive Psychology, Psychiatry, Religion, Renaissance magic, Social psychology, Wellbeing classesJules EvansApril 17, 2012 Comment

How can we make sense of revelatory experiences?

Cults, History of Emotions, neuroscience, New Age, Psychiatry, Religion, Uncategorized, PsychedelicsJules EvansMarch 24, 2012 Comment

Roy Porter: The Musical!

History of EmotionsJules EvansMarch 20, 2012 Comment

How Aldous Huxley inspired the human potential movement

Adult education, History of Emotions, New AgeJules EvansMarch 15, 2012 Comments

The biological hardware and the cultural software of the emotions

Buddhism, emotions, History of EmotionsJules EvansMarch 5, 2012 Comments

'Disgust is so hot right now'

emotions, History of EmotionsJules EvansJanuary 29, 2012 Comments

Dying of homesickness

History of EmotionsJules EvansOctober 13, 2011Comment