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Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel!

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Abigail

Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel! Hegel is one of the philosophers from whom I’ve learned a lot. Though he was born and died in nineteenth-century Germany, he’s still timely. In the Anglo-American sphere, the question I get is, “What’s … Continue reading →

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A Woman Friend

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Abigail

A Woman Friend To most women, our female friends are of great importance in our lives. If my mother was right when she said, “A friend is a witness to one’s life,” we call in our female friends to witness … Continue reading →

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How to Be Modern

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Abigail

How to Be Modern I’ve never understood why people wanted to be modern in the first place. Okay, the dentistry is an improvement. I’ll give you that. On the other hand, Victorian people (as in the novels of Dickens) seemed … Continue reading →

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Read it Here First! My Obit!

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Abigail

Read it Here First! My Obit! All this week, Jerry and I have been attending to what I call “Last Arrangements.” Though we’re not expecting to kick off any time soon, you never know, and one of the chores I’ve … Continue reading →

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Snobbism

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Abigail

Snobbism I was reminded of how much I hate snobbism by another biography of a philosopher. Having just finished Ray Monk’s Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, from which I learned about a man, an era and a creative philosophical method … Continue reading →

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What’s with Wittgenstein?

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Abigail

What’s with Wittgenstein? Ludwig Wittgenstein seems still to bestride the narrow straits of world thought like a colossus, reflections of him flickering over cultural regions far afield from his own. By lamplight, I’ve been spending my recent weeks with the … Continue reading →

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The Good Book

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Abigail

The Good Book We’ve been away in California for the past week, to allow me another round of the neuropathy treatments available only at a clinic in Loma Linda. The friends and family we usually see there are now under … Continue reading →

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How A Woman Can Be Liberated

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Abigail

How A Woman Can Be Liberated When I started this column a few years ago, I vowed not to give advice. I even put that in our subtitle: “The Non-Advice Column.” So why am I about to give some? Well, … Continue reading →

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How’s the Eternal Feminine Doing These Days?

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Abigail

How’s the Eternal Feminine Doing These Days? When I started this blog – lo! some years back – I was moved by a concern about women. We are being bombarded by half-truths. And if we women start down one of … Continue reading →

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Who or What Were Adam and Eve?

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Abigail

Who or What Were Adam and Eve? Unless you believe that the entire universe actually came into being at the divine summons 5,781 years previous to the New Year of September, 2020, with the two parents of the human race … Continue reading →

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