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Thank you for visiting the Living Philosophy shop.
Here you will be able to purchase copies of the plays we have performed at the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe.
Reviews of the philosophy plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are available by clicking here.
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Print: $13.85 This authentic docu-drama tells the Adam Smith Story to present his lost legacy so urgently needed for us and our world today. Along the way we meet his mother, his headmaster, the Duke of Buccleugh, Ben Franklin and above all we are inspired by his friendship with David Hume
Through the Scottish Radical Enlightenment his views on religion and politics offer a critique of militant xenophobic fundamentalist terrorism/crusades and militant/greedy ultra-nationalistic tyrants. How are Wisdom – Justice – Compassion – Integrity (the four words on the Scottish Parliament’s mace) proclaimed by this Professor of Moral Philosophy who became the Father of Modern Economics? Through role-play these four words are examined and can become emblazoned on your mind, heart and will as they have been with others struggling with the consequences of the alternatives: Ignorance – Exploitation – Insensitivity – Hypocrisy.
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Print: $13.65 Who am I? Is my life largely unexamined? What are wisdom and virtue?
What is the relationship of these questions to myself as an individual and as a participant in community?
The play takes two themes, that of Socrates’ personal life and that of his legacy. Socrates’ life is a response to the being of his vision characterised in the play as Lady Justice. The culmination of Socrates’ life is his death and through this we are enabled to see his legacy which is the interrogative method. This gives the freedom to create informed answers to our own questions and to that of our time.
Throughout the play a commentator highlights the relevance of the Socratic method to the modern world while proposing his critical philosophy is needed even more now than during his lifetime.
For further information about the docu-dramas performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe please visit www.livingphilosophy.org.uk.
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Print: $13.68 “The greatest happiness for the greatest number.” It seems self evident, but actually it took the genius of Jeremy Bentham to put it into words. In this docu-drama, we can enter into the roles of those who helped Bentham to find answers to important questions in all our lives, and so find answers for ourselves.
We meet key people in Bentham’s life, and through this discover what concerned him, and how he achieved an integrated understanding. Finally, in an epilogue, we meet several historic people and then our own contemporaries. All of them give examples of his deep influence on our own lives. We are reminded not only about how Bentham lives through institutions like the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, but also through ideas like multiculturalism and resolving dispute through negotiation rather than force.
For further information about the docu-dramas performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe please visit www.livingphilosophy.org.uk.
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Print: $13.54 What am I?
Why am I?
What beings surround me?
From whom and for whom do I have influence?
What do I believe I can know for certain?
These are the questions David Hume asked himself before he began writing. And these are questions we can find answers to on our own and with others in this docu-drama on his life and teachings.
We experience his struggle to establish his position in terms of ideas which were being contested in his time. Although in one sense a member of the Establishment, we see the creative tensions in his relationship with it. We meet a number of people influential in the political, philosophical and religious discussions of his time and make the connections with the really important issues of our own time. Our own struggle for truth and meaning that is eternal is reflected here.
For further information about the docu-dramas performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe please visit www.livingphilosophy.org.uk.
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PUBLICATIONS
The Living Bible series of four textbooks for Religious Education in British Secondary schools (state, private, and Church related including Catholic), Holmes McDougall Educational Publishers: Adventure in Religion 1966, Has Life a Purpose? 1967, Encounter with Love 1968, and Commitment 1970. Also used in a number of overseas countries. They became the official textbooks for Religious, Social and Moral Education for the British Army Cadet Training Programme as used by Army Chaplains.
Luke: A teaching commentary for Religious Studies (‘O’ and ‘A’ Level English Board exams; ‘O’ and Higher Grade Scottish exams), general Religious Education courses, informal study groups, and as a reader. Published by Holmes McDougall, 1984
Between You and Me, A workbook for Social and Moral Education. Published by Dram Press, 1984
The U.N. Pursuit series of booklets: The U.N. from A – Z, Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, In Search of Nirvana, and The Role of the U.N. in Conflict Resolution. Has also been used to promote and prepare international youth exchanges through Operation Friendship, and by study groups
Where Rivers Meet, the Search for Peace with Justice. (On Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy) Scottish Cultural Press, 1997
Living Philosophy, the Search for Wisdom with Justice (In Preparation)
BIOGRAPHY:
Born 31st January, 1934 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S.A.
Certificate in Speech and Drama: Summer School at Northwestern University, 1951
B.A. in Philosophy from Wabash College, Indiana, 1956
M.Th. and B.D. conversion from Union, N.Y.C., with 2 years at Edinburgh University
Associate Minister, Bay Ridge Methodist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.C., 1958-1960
(Chairman, National Council of Christians and Jews in Brooklyn;
Chaplain, Maimonides Hospital, N.Y.C.)
Part time Assistant Minister, St. George’s West Church, Edinburgh, while writing
textbooks for Religious, Social, and Moral Education for British and
Commonwealth schools and for the British Army chaplains
Received Permanent Resident status in Great Britain as a U.S. citizen married to a
British citizen
Minister, St. Margaret’s Parish Church, Glenrothes, 1964-76
Founder, Operation Friendship International Youth Venture, 1964
Guest lecturer, Summer School for Teachers of Religion in America, 1972
Moderator of Kirkcaldy Presbytery for the Church of Scotland, 1974-75
Chaplain and Head of the Religious Education Department (to include Philosophy,
Stewart’s/Melville College (twinned with the Mary Erskine School),
Edinburgh, 1976 until retirement from teaching,
1974 N.G.O./D.P.I. Delegate to the United Nations for Operation Friendship International,
1987-94, attending conferences and meetings at Headquarters (NYC) and UNESCO (Paris)
Member of numerous societies including the Society of Authors, the Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association, the Edinburgh Council of Christians and Jews, Friends of Palestine, and the Morningside Justice and Peace Group
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