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The Right Way to Act
The Right Way to Act An essay of mine with that title, excerpted from my Good Look at Evil, is now posted on academia.edu. It’s on the question of how to conduct oneself during one’s Holocaust. The title is meant … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic colleagues, Argumentum ad baculum, armchair moralizing, author meets reader, behaviorism, being ready for a book, blaming the victim, book smart v street smart, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College faculty, Brooklyn College students, character test, children of survivors, choices of duties, complex people, conditioning as excuse, confronting malice, cruelty as a motive, exonerating the guilty, extenuating circumstances, faculty reception, God as a person, hasidic tales, Hasidism, historian's verification, Holocaust, Holocaust atrocities, Holocaust commemorator, Holocaust studies, Holocaust survivor interviews, Holocaust survivors, human devotion, interviewing sources, Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters", moral confusion, moral evasion, naturalism, oversensitivity, personal love, Personal loyalty, primary sources, pulling moral rank, social conditioning, spiritual endurance, the hasidic world, the human spirit, the Jewish spirit, the teaching is in the tale, the triumph of the human spirit, The World of Truth, Yaffa Eliach's Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust
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Collegiality
Collegiality It’s one of the most precious chances life offers: to be a team player, a cooperator in a venture, a fellow worker in a joint work. Nothing could be more fun than this sharing of skilled seriousness. Student … Continue reading →
Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Alienation, American Politics, Anthropology, Art of Living, Autonomy, bureaucracy, Chivalry, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Guilt and Innocence, Health, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master/slave relation, Medieval, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, non-violence, novels, Ontology, Oppression, pacifism, Past and Future, Peace, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Political Movements, politics, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Roles, Romance, scientism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, Sociobiology, 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, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic colleagues, academic quarrels, allies, anguish of parents, broken friendship, casing the target, children in peril, colleagues, cooperating, deaths of parents, defamatory fictions, determined enemy, divorces, enjoying differences, fellow worker, frightening diagosis, having fun, heartbreak, intellectual struggles, irreparable quarrels, joint work, knowing where to strike, longterm friends, lost friendship, malevolent intentions, objective roles, objective rules, personal struggles, philosophical colleagues, righteous combat, rites of passage, rules of the game, search for truth, senior colleague, shared quest, shared skills, state of grace, striking the vulnerable, student life, targeting a weakness, volleyball, weddings, work projects, young adulthood
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Anger
Anger At one of the numberless administrative hearings held during my seven-year job fight, the opposing counsel asked me, with an insinuating sidewise smile, “Are you very angry at the people who fired you?” I glanced down the long table … Continue reading →
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Tagged 17th century metaphysics, 17th century philosophy, a woman's anger, academic colleagues, academic hearings, academic politics, academic reinstatement, academic sexism, academic tenure, administrative hearings, anger, anger as truthful, anger management, Arbitration, bad guys, combat of life, dealing with anger, deliberate injury, determinism, drama of life, free will, freedom, Gandhi and non-violence, God as Substance, God as Witness, God is a Person, God's love, hard to be a person, healthy anger, impersonal God, interpersonal dynamics, interpersonal skills, job fight, laws of history, laws of nature, Mahatma, martial arts of social life, merited anger, metaphysical system, overcoming anger, personal choice, personal God, persons as objects, professional hell, promise breaking, real life dramas, reclaiming your power, resentment, revenge-seekers, Right and Wrong, risks of life, satyagraha, self-definition, sexism, sidestepping anger, soul force, Spinoza, Spinoza's Ethics, Spinozistic remedy, substance attributes and modes, tenure fight, Ultimate Action, Ultimate Causality, understanding as power, Unqualified Power, Western films
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