Safety of the People..

Safety of the People or War of All Against All

“Salus populi suprema lex esto”  (“the safety of the people should be the supreme law”) wrote Cicero in the last days of the Roman Republic, before civil wars and dictators fatally threatened the salus.

This principle has been a cornerstone of Western political theory since at least the C17.

Consciously or not...

Consciously or not..

Philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have for many years suffered a lot of intellectual perplexity trying to fit, into one or more of their many pigeonholes, the nature of human consciousness – the experience of self awareness in our sensations, thoughts, feelings, memories, dreams.