Decimus Society

    President: Mr Niall Lambkin 

     

    The Decimus Society is a forum for philosophical discussion and debate open by invitation to sixth formers.  Parents, members of staff and interested members of the public are also very welcome to attend.  Meetings are held in the Archive Room, Oswestry School.

     

    There is no simple answer to the question "What is Philosophy?" and more than two and a half thousand years of philosophising has failed to reach a definitive or satisfactory answer.  Nevertheless, Philosophy remains the most compelling of all academic disciplines because, despite our inability to define its field, we are drawn seductively into its arms by its abstract and ultimate character.

    To read all of this introduction to philosophy by the President of the Decimus Society, click here.

    Please click here for details of our Decimus Society Events

    Papers Available

    Crime and Punishment

    N F Lambkin

    The Philistines in the Ascendant

    N F Lambkin

    What's the Use?

    N F Lambkin

    Just War Theory

    Sorcha Lambkin

    Notes on Just War Theory

    Dr Mark Evans

    Education and Mind Fetters

    N F Lambkin

    Personal Identity, 'I' and Awareness

    N F Lambkin

    God is Dead

    R Sommerville

    Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?

    Dr John Hyman

    Is Your Mind Post-Modernist?

    N F Lambkin

    Appearance, Reality and the Matrix

    N F Lambkin

    Are Aesthetic Judgments Subjective or Objective?

    G Thomas

    Flesh, Being Civilised and the Hierarchy of Experience

    N F Lambkin

    Design up to Scratch?

    Rev M B Roberts

    Political Leadership and Moral Dereliction

    N F Lambkin

    Ethical Discourse and the Demise of God

    N F Lambkin