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Why Women Are Mean to Other Women
Why Women Are Mean to Other Women Whew! This is a touchy subject. Almost taboo, since we are these days denominated the compassionate, caring, anti-violence sex. Labels of these kinds call to mind the way 19th-century suffragettes made the case … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century, American Philosophical Association, androgyny, anti-war women, APA, bad women, badness and goodness, cattiness, choreography, dance of courtship, domesticity, erotic polarities, female attractiveness, forging freedom, Francis Thomson’s In No Strange Land, free will, gender roles, good men, good women, gossip, helpmeet, living one’s story, male brutality, male cruelty, male/female polarity, man/woman asymmetry, man/woman choreography, manliness, maternal coldness, maternal virtues, mean girls, Mean women, moral difference, motherhood, nature v nurture, nurturing, philosophical argument, Plato’s Symposium, public v private, real men, real women, reigning orthodoxy, same-sex eros, sensitizing men, sex and gender, sex differences, sexual attraction, social constructs, suffragettes, sympathy for women, the caring sex, the compassionate sex, the feminist movement, time and fertility, timeless attraction, touchy subject, true stories, unisex, virility, winners and losers, women against violence, women against women, women in competition, women in the kitchen, women in the nursery, women’s caring, women’s compassion, yin and yang, youth and attractiveness
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Real Life and the Philosophic Life
Real Life and the Philosophic Life Is there any connection between the two? The book I recently fell in love with, John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story, was heartening to me on two fronts. First, the American philosophers, whose … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the divine Plato", 19th century, 19th century optimism, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", American optimism, American Philosophy, archives, Athenian street, Athens, Australian materialism, autobiography, Baruch Spinoza, business mentality, Cephalus, Charles Darwin, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, conventionality, counter-culture, Darwin, Darwinian Laws of Nature, David Stove, David Stove's "Against the Idols of the Tribe", despair, determinism, dialogue, Divine intervention, Evolutionary theory, faith in progress, fate, fictional narrative, go along to get along, God as Witness, God's action, God's role, honesty, John Kaag, John Kaag's "American Philosophy: A Love Story", justice defined, limits of honesty, love life, luck, made up stories, memoir, native grain, New World, overcoming despair, personal pathway, philosophy's tools, Plato, political justice, Pragmatists, promise keeping, providence, pursuit of truth, road less traveled, role of chance, romantic risks, satire, Socrates, Socratic dialectic, Socratic method, Spinoza's Ethics, the God factor, The Name, Tom Wolfe, Tom Wolfe's "The Kingdom of Speech", true love, true stories, truth seeker, truth telling, unconventionality, what rings true, William James, William James' "The Will To Believe"
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