Today I came across the above video of British political philosopher John Gray discussing faith, progress, immortality and the human condition with Revd Dr Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. I haven't yet read enough about him to figure him out but I do get that he doesn't believe in the idea of progress, neither the humanist nor the religious Teilhard de Chardin-ish version, and though he seems agnostic, he's anti-science as well. Some of his books ... The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death ... Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (see a review of it by A, C. Grayling) ... Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (see a review of it at OnEarth magazine).
But on to someone I like more :) .... Montaigne. There's a podcast about him at Philosophy Bites - Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne - that reminded me of a past kind of fun video on him, Montaigne on Self-Esteem - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness .....
