Monthly Archives: February 2022
Philosophy and Me
Philosophy and Me Goodness, who cares! you might well think, seeing the title of this column. But isn’t that what concerns each of us, whenever we’ve been required or drawn to read some philosophy? What about me? How does this … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th-century nihilism, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", benefits of philosophy, Classical skepticism, competing moral claims, competing truth claims, condemnation syndrome, contemporary philosophers, cultural guilt, current intellectual life, Descartes and the moderns, dominance v subordination, exercises of power, finding common ground, Greco-Roman culture, guilt and regret, hypocrisy, implicit absolutism, intellectual common ground, intercultural disputes, Jesuits of the Sorbonne, Kepler and Galileo, manipulative accusers, manipulative use of guilt, oppressed and oppressor, pagans v Christians, philosophers and guilt, philosophers as midwives of history, philosophic skill, philosophy as its own warrant, philosophy as personal, philosophy making a difference, philosophy the longest conversation, post-modernism and objective truth, post-modernism and objective values, post-modernism and philosophy, significance of philosophy, silence of philosophy, St. Augustine, the task of philosophy, unmasking power plays
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Zora Neale Hurston: American Talent
Zora Neale Hurston: American Talent Lately, I’ve been reading You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Edited with an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West. This is a collection of essays … Continue reading
Posted in Action, American Politics, Art, Art of Living, Autonomy, beauty, books, Cities, Class, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Female Power, Freedom, History, Identity, Jews, Literature, Love, Memoir, Modern Women, novels, Oppression, Past and Future, politics, politics of ideas, Power, presence, promissory notes, Public Intellectual, Race, Reading, relationships, Roles, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, status, status of women, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged African-American writers, American contradictions, coerced silence, competition between writers, cultural life systems, cultural wisdom, Declaration of Independence, Genevieve West, groupthink, Henry Louis Gates, literary critics, national healing, posthumous publication, promise and performance, protest novels, race burden, race consciousness, racial guilt, repairing national wrongs, restoring wholeness, self-repair, women writers, writing talent, Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
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Incurable?
Incurable? On the whole, I don’t hold a grudge. If I’ve been injured in some way, but the wound is either cured — or else not the kind of thing that can be patched up — that ends the incident … Continue reading
Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, bigotry, books, bureaucracy, Chivalry, Christianity, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Female Power, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Immorality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master/slave relation, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modern Women, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, Philosophy, Political Movements, politics, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged academic politics, becoming whole again, betrayal, Bible's historicity, collegiality, Covenant and history, curing PTSD, friendship as normal, Genesis 12, God in history, God's pilot project, healing a wound, holding a grudge, Holocaust methods, Jewish dilemma, Jewish vulnerability, Jews in history, Kiddush Ha-Shem, knowing one's limitations, Me Too, non-supersessionism, past life memory, philosopher friend, post-traumatic stress, prayer and PTSD, problems without solutions, restoring wholeness, righteous combat, rip-off, Sanctification of the Name, Sarah and Pharoah, satyagraha, sealed trucks, sexual predator, small claims court, social politics, Truth Force, unhealed wound, unprotective men, whistleblower, women of the Covenant, women protecting men
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