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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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Tagged antihero, Authenticity, before the fall, being-toward-death, bourgeois morality, choice of evils, conformism, conventional opinion, counterculture, counterculture and creative artists, Dasein, death as news, epater le bourgeois, era of authenticity, fashionable nonconformity, fashionable outlaws, female powerlessness, finding one’s calling, finding one’s own path, getting real, girls and French intellectuals, go along to get along, gossip, Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and existentialism, Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, Heidegger and Nazism, Heidegger Rector of University of Freiburg, Heidegger's authenticity, Heidegger's Jewish students, Hell is other people, hippies, hippy communes, inauthentic, inauthentic depth, infant dependency, integrity and conformism, integrity in society, Jean-Paul Sartre's Authenticity, judgment and judgmentalism, judgmentalism, Lionel Trilling's Sincerity and Authenticity, Martin Heidegger, middle class values, nonconformity à la mode, obituaries and condolences, other-directedness, outlaw chic, pony tails turning grey, prelapsarian innocence, put out or I'll put you in my book, Sartre and the waiter, Sartre on courtship, Sartre's advice to young women, Sartre's bad faith, Sartre's Huis Clos, Sartre's mauvaise foi, Sartre's No Exit, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, talent as an excuse, the counterculture and women, uncanniness in Heidegger, Walter Newell's Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
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The Owl of Minerva Takes Flight
This week, Abbie brings back a reader favorite. First shared in an earlier column, The Owl of Minerva Takes Flight explores what it means to understand history only in hindsight, and what we might see when we try. *** “The … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient skepticism, anthropic principle, Antony Flew’s There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, brainwashing, cancel culture and desire, cancel culture and social power, chance and life’s origin, coerced confessions, culture and the absolute, culture and ultimate truth, Darwin and chance, Darwinian evolution, decoding present history, desire and erotic skepticism, erotic manipulation, foreseeing the future, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama and liberal democracy, G.W.F. Hegel, George Orwell's "1984", guilt and social power, Hegel and history, historical eros, ideology and tyranny, intelligibility of history, laws of probability and evolution, liberal democratic values, Mind Control, Modernity, my story and humanity’s story, natural purposes, ostracism and social power, owl of Minerva, personal story and world history, philosophy and teleology, postmodern skepticism, postmodernism and denial, psychoanalysis, purposiveness in nature, reading the Zeitgeist, Robert Jay Lifton's Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China, skepticism, skepticism and biological nature, skepticism in history, Sy Garte’s The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith, teleology, the big picture, the bird’s eye view of history, The Owl of Minerva and history, theology and teleology, Ukraine and Western nations, Ukraine as a test of values, understanding the present, world history and liberal democracy
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My Journey Within
Earlier today, in a momentous break with recent routine, I set aside time to be with me, Abbie. My aim was to step outside the drumbeat of each-hour-taken-over-by-its-ineluctable-task. I wanted to bracket all the tasks and ask the question: Am … Continue reading
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Tagged a twosome with God, alchemist in his workshop, alchemy and secret doctrines, confessions, dating and "I know what you need.", defending identity, depth psychology, doing God's will, fear of God, Fear of intimacy, finding identity, finding one's self, friend as mirror, friendships that last through time, God and self-trust, God and the self, God sees me, God's will harmonious with mine, healthy mirroring, healthy responsiveness to differences in friends, heart-to-heart talk, hermetic wisdom, hidden depths, inner child, inner depths, inner truth, introspection, introspection and the unconcious, journey within, love lasting through time, maintaining identity, mental health, Nietzsche, perceiving one's wholeness, personal love and acceptance, personal relation to God, personhood and friendship, pseudo psychoanalytic manipulativeness, psychic surface and psychic depths, psychic wholeness, psychological health, psychological put downs, psychologizing as rudeness, psychologizing to gain power, psychology as seduction, recovering friendships, reunions with friends, seeing God, seeing one's self in the round, self and other, surface inconsistencies within psychic wholeness, time out, time out for friendship, unconscious motives, what's a matter yuh frigid?, who am I?, wholeness of self
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