Ian West's Blog ('Cawstein')

Searching for the Essential Simplicity that underlies complex subjects. Total 'hits' to date: 230,413. (My currently popular posts are automatically listed in the right hand column. For a 'round-up' see: http://cawstein.co.uk/)

12 September 2025

The Good

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'The Good': Is Morality still Needed? Do we have, or desire, or need a set of moral rules, or a moral compass? My answer is ...

03 September 2025

Living the Dream

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Living the Dream It was noon, one sunny, summer, Sunday, and I was walking down Parson's Street towards the bus-station. I was struc...

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05 August 2025

My Books

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My Books Michel de Montaigne wrote an essay ' On Books' , disclaiming scholarship; claiming rather to be clumsy, slow-witted and f...

03 August 2025

Herbert Marcuse

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Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) Seeing the title of the previous post (" Six Dimensional Man ") reminded me that I had a book up...

28 July 2025

Six Dimensional Man

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The Six Dimensional Man Our hero, Steve, stood in front of the brown varnished door labelled '...

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25 July 2025

De l'Amour

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De l'Amour Max and I sat sipping wine in my conservatory as the light slowly faded. "So," I asked, "what do you say ...

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Ian West: I was born in Poole, Dorset, but remember little of the occasion. I spent from the age of 1 to 9 in Juniper Green on the western edge of Edinburgh, during and shortly after the 2nd world war. It was there that most of my siblings were born. We emigrated to New Zealand when I was 9, and re-emigrated back to England 3 years later, arriving in Southampton on the 20th October 1954.

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