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The Three-Tiered Real World
The Three Tiers: The Everyday, The Moral and The Spiritual As of last night, we’re back from the Eric Voegelin Society meetings in Boston, where Jerry and I each gave talks. The late Eric Voegelin is not widely known … Continue reading →
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Authenticity Adios
To get to the point about authenticity: it’s only reached when our very fleetingness is faced square on, along with awareness that we’re headed toward the end of ourselves (Being-Toward-Death). So what’s inauthentic, for Heidegger? It would be any assumption … Continue reading →
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Bad Faith at Sartre’s Cafe
Abbie is away this week getting treatments in California. This column was originally posted on December 7, 2021, and continues to be timely. ______________________ It may be of interest to note that post-World War II feminism (the “second … Continue reading →
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Philosophy in a Frenched* Bed
Years ago I lived in Australia for a couple of academic terms, my first husband having been hired to teach logic at Sydney University. Under the title of Research Affiliate, I enjoyed freedom to use the library and to … Continue reading →
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Beyond ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
Recently, I finished reading a novel, The Far Pavilions, by M.M. Kaye, set in 19th century India. Its hero is a young British officer with a dual identity. He’s been raised as an Indian child after his English parents died … Continue reading →
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The Decline and Fall of Sex
Still concerned as I am to discern the ways and means by which the trained philosophers among us have been thinking about sex, I’m going to dig deeper. From the collection, The Philosophy of Sex, I’m picking out the essay … Continue reading →
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Getting Sex All Wrong
There are some who believe that “You are what you eat.” Differing from those people, I believe that “You are what you think.” And about The Big Subject, what philosophers think and write about sex can trickle down to … Continue reading →
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Getting Philosophical about Sex
Philosophers debate many things, but do they talk about what makes the world go round? As it happens, a number of philosophical colleagues have been contributing to The Philosophy of Sex (Rowman & Littlefield 2023, eds. Raja Halwani, Jacob … Continue reading →
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Tagged agender identity, asymmetry as romantic or exploitative, asymmetry of man/woman intimacy, attaining erotic success, avant garde philosophy, avant garde style, being who you are, biologic facts vs social facts, broadcasting a private encounter, competetive scoring for men re sex, defending women in law, desire at the deep level, desirers mirroring each other, don’t ask don’t tell, eros and atheism, eros and delusive expectations, eros and ideality, eros in Plato’s Phaedrus, exploiting female vulnerability, female vulnerability, feminist in-group taxonomy, gaining one’s life by losing it, Gender Categories by Katharine Jenkins, gender oppression, genderqueer identity, in-group taxonomy, inhabiting one’s identity, interpreting one’s identity, intimacy and disrespect, kiss and tell stories, kissing and telling, love’s aim not appetitive, love’s aim not satisfying an appetite, love’s aim ontological, men’s identity, multiple social identities, Nagel explaining the sexual norm, Nagel on reciprocal attraction, nonreciprocal sexual act, normality in sex, offering sex for moral reasons, ordinary atheism, oversimplifying romance, philosophers debating, philosophic recollection insulting to men, philosophic recollection insulting to women, philosophical colleagues, philosophizing about sex, power imbalances, private experience as life capital, propositioning a man, propositioning a stranger, propositioning a woman, resistance to gender oppression, romance as real-life drama, Sartre on sex as frustration, Sartre’s man is a useless passion, sex as conquest, sex as sacred, sex felt as a duty, sex not a commodity, sex not merely a pleasure, sex vs gender, sex without self-interest, sexual encounter recollected, sexual experience more consequential for women, sexual scoring not a victory for women, sexual supererogation, Soble’s Sexual Gifts and Sexual Duties, supererogatory sex, The Philosophy of Sex 2023, the power of no, the sexual norm, Thomas Nagel’s Sexual Perversion, uncomfortable campus encounter, uncomfortable sexual recollection, ungallant recollections, unresolved man/woman recollection, unresolved romance, unresolved sexual recollection, women and power imbalances, women and social comportment, women’s identity
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The Dance of Desire
“Are you still looking for Mister Right?” Lorraine – a well-regarded feminist as well as a stalwart friend – once put that question to me. It was some years ago that this conversation took place. I … Continue reading →
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Tagged a girl’s girl, abusing a patient's trust, asymmetry between the sexes, bodice buster novels, bodice ripper novels, Catharine MacKinnon’s Feminism Unmodified, Catharine MacKinnon’s statistics, cheating husband, combining career motherhood and marriage, dance of desire, deus ex machina, equality in academe, Famous feminists, feminism and contraception, feminist book on contraceptives, feminist book on the pill, feminist friend, finding Mister Right, Freud and women, happily ever after, happy ending, heroes’ gallantry to women, husbands resenting wife's success, looking for Mr. Right, male gallantry, male heroism, male/female equality between academic colleagues, man/woman equality and inequality in Genesis, masculine nobility, men taking out on women their loss of standing, Mr. Right, overstepping professional bounds, physical asymmetry of the sexes and social consequences, political vs personal liberation, prefeminist advice program, prefeminist friendship, prefeminist TV personality, private hopes of public feminists, private lives of public feminists, professional success vs personal success, psychiatric malpractice, psychiatrist husband, real life not the movies, Ring of Gyges syndrome, Romantic Love, romantic love as a miracle, romantic love as miraculous, seduction as pretended therapy, succeeding as a woman, successful wife and mother, the feminine vocation, the stories of women, therapist seducing a patient, unliberated feminist, what do women want?, wife who has it all, women and big city encounters, women and cynicism, women and harassment, women and sexual assault, women and unwelcome looks, women and unwelcome remarks, women befriending women, women catering to masculine ascendancy, women in novels, women never harassed, women protecting male ego, women protecting male self-respect, women supporting women, women who give up hope, women’s desires thwarted, women’s hopes disappointed, women’s life stories, women’s unspoken hopes, worst husband, you can’t fight every fight
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Death Frames the Story
In Death is But a Dream, the report of research by Christopher Kerr that I wrote about last week, the author’s interviews with the dying tell of reunions between the dying and those they cared about who had predeceased … Continue reading →
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Tagged afterlife and judgment, afterlife and truthfulness, credibility of the dying in law, cultural implications of personal survival, cultural implications of surviving death, cynicism vs realistic idealism, cynicism vs self-empowerment, death and medieval jurisprudence, death and modernity, death and postmodern assumptions, death and standard medical view, death as the end, Death is But a Dream by Christopher Kerr, death not the end, death of a father, deathbed experiences, deathbed reunions, deathbed visions deemed hallucinations, deathbed visions medically viewed, deathbed witnesses, dying and romance, dying and true love, dying brings out the true self, dying brings out the truth, dying foregrounds character, evidences of survival, fantasies vs realistic hopes, feelings of the dying, implications of immortality, introducing one’s love to departed parents, introducing wife to deceased mother, last kiss, last words of the dying, legal credibility of the dying, life is not meaningless, lives as nonfiction stories, love does not die, lovers separated by death, meaninglessness no longer in style, research into death and dying, reunions of the dying and the dead, romance doesn’t die, surviving death and living meaningfully, surviving death is culturally respectable, the dying and divine judgment, the dying have nothing to lose, the dying presumed not to lie, true love and dying, Visions Trips and Crowded Rooms by David Kessler, witnesses to deathbed experience
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