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Being a Person
A Theory of Human Violence
Emotions
The difference between being human and being a person; being a person as a way of relating to possibilities in the world; the actualisation of a self. A theory that humans remain violent because of a process addiction to certain (political rather than moral) ways of thinking; evaluating violence.
What emotions are, how they are formed, and what they show us about ourselves.



Heidegger
Personal Morality
Social Morality
A look at the main themes in Martin Heidegger's 1927 masterwork Being and Time. Includes a glossary of terms.
A possible morality for human persons wanting to be less violent and more authentic than is usual for humans. A right to cultural/natural integrity; equality as fairness; dealing with anti-social behaviours.



Self-deception
Granddad Stories
Books
A theory about how and why humans deceive themselves.
A selection of children's stories grouped by age (3-6, 7-11, and 11+)
Purchase A Reader's Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time, Out of the Caves (a Theory of Human Violence), BEING REAL: Human Persons, violence, and authenticity, and Novels by Steven Foulds



Sacrifice: A Speculation
The Viking Way
A View of Maori Myth and Ritual
Thoughts about the logic, point, and origin, of religious sacrifice. An introduction to Norse/Viking mythology and religious practice from the first millennium of the Common Era.
Gender and duality in the myths and rituals of pre-European Maori in the lower North Island of New Zealand. Some legends concerning New Zealand volcanoes
Conscience


Why do persons have a conscience? What is it and what does it do for us? The hypothesis offered here does not appeal to any religious, scientific, or pseudo-scientific theories, but only to the common experience of humans being persons in the world.







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