Time on Our Hands

As I have often written, time is such a difficult subject, but nonetheless a fascinating one. But in this essay I want to direct my reader’s attention to another fascinating issue about time. It is the notion of the benefit of “Spare Time”. The traditional Protestant ethic would suggest that having spare time is surely […]

February 21, 2026

Your Book of Life

If you were a book, you would be a book of memories. The idea that your memories make you who you are is a common one. They are probably not the whole story of you but it is difficult to deny that they are a significant part of that story. Mark Rowlands Professor of Philosophy […]

February 3, 2026

An Unexamined Life?

Perhaps the most famous quote attributed to Socrates is: An unexamined life is not worth living. It is undoubtedly true that to be a well-functioning, competent human being requires that we have adequate self-knowledge. We need to be realistically aware of our strengths and weaknesses, our skills and vulnerabilities. So there is indeed value in […]

January 26, 2026

In Loving Memory

It is an inevitable consequence of growing older that we increasingly know more people who have died! We dutifully attend funerals and endure endless eulogies. To begin with we are often introduced to the deceased by a religious person officiating at the funeral of someone who barely entered a church in their lives. This well-meaning […]

January 16, 2026

Another Way of Knowing

In the introduction to “Augustus Finds Serenity” I outlined the reason why I had sought to use the medium of metaphor and parable to outline the concepts that I thought were useful in helping people live more fulfilled lives. I started my career as an engineer and the principal tools I used were built on […]

July 8, 2009

Love Makes The World Go Round

“Love Makes the World go Round” is a title of a song I remember from my youth. It might be evocative, but it isn’t strictly true – but certainly the quality of our existence in this world is enhanced by love. My friend and colleague, Dr Phil Harker points out that we are often confused […]

July 1, 2009

The Pursuit of Happiness

My friend, the psychologist, Dr Phil Harker, has a formula for achieving psychological robustness. If we are to be well-adjusted, he teaches, first we should take steps to know ourselves, then we must learn to accept ourselves, and then finally, if we are to live lives of contentment, we must forget ourselves. It has been […]

June 26, 2009

Consciousness and World Views

In 1637, Rene˙ Descartes set the modern study of the mind-brain relationship in motion. It was at this time he took his famous sojourn in a Dutch farmhouse to escape authority and contemplate humanity’s innate nature. In trying to distill philosophy back to only those things he felt he could be sure about, he wrote, […]

June 20, 2009

A Begginner Blogger Blogs a Beginning

Hi world of readers. Let me introduce myself. I am Ted Scott. I have had a couple of careers, firstly as an executive and more lately as a management consultant and executive coach. I have been writing for some time, having written articles for magazines and journals. My first book, “Humanity at Work” was written […]

June 15, 2009