Having failed in her attempts to either tempt or coerce me into accepting every job in her briefcase of considerable size, my careers officer at school declared me a “round peg in a square world.” She then put her papers away, closed her briefcase, and sent me on my way. I remain whole and wholesome in a world that is not, and seek to guide people back to the true, right, and natural way in a world of deceit, division, and lies.

I am a defender of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful,  an advocate of rational freedom founded upon the natural law, and a believer in the common moral reason (a quality possessed by each and all).

My research proceeds within a normative philosophical anthropology that is concerned with establishing the conditions for human and planetary flourishing, sustaining the 'happy habitus' in which the moral and intellectual virtues can be known, acquired, internalised, and exercised, thus enabling the living of the good life. A lofty ambition in these dark times. But it is possible - 'all life is on our side .. and has been since the very beginning, slow though we have been to realize this fact' (Lewis Mumford).

My work explores the possibility that solidarity, hitherto confined within the abstract state sphere, can come to take the form of a self-socialisation from below, creating and sustaining a culture that fosters human connection in face of profound social division within and remote control without.

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