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The Silver Plus One
During the days following our return from California, we had to postpone the celebration of our 26th wedding anniversary so the “silver” anniversary plus one – in order first to face the leaning tower of chores and summonses that awaited … Continue reading
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Tagged AAR, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Abigail L. Rosenthal’s philosophical articles, academic combat, academic politics, action vs theory, against all odds, American Academy of Religion, analytic philosopher, anniversary celebration, betting on love, book with illustrations, Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, calculating advantages, City University of New York, college administration, college administration and curriculum, core curriculum, courtship and analytic philosophy, dating and analytic philosophy, defending academic standards, defending civilization, defending education, defending higher education, falling in love, fatal risks, fighting the good fight, finding the right marriage partner, finding the right partner, foolhardy, foolish risks, God makes marriages, God: An Autobiography As Told to a Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin, history department, holy ground, impolitic risks, intelligent risk, Jerry L. Martin’s Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, joining two lives, knowing when to act, knowing when to theorize, last stand, letting go of the result, life review, lifelong projects, looking for Miss Right, looking for Mr. Right, looking for the right partner, love and marriage, marital commitment, marital illusions, marital politics, marriage for compatibility, matters of the heart, meeting friends in cafes, miscalculations, narrowmindedness, not looking for Miss Right, not looking for Mr. Right, novelistic encounters, Pascal's wager, personal history, personal virtues, philosophic evaluation of religious claims, philosophical articles, philosophy and religious claims, Philosophy Department, philosophy of religion, political theory vs action, politics of experience, putting personal life on hold, real life means taking risks, received wisdom, reflection on past choices, religious claims and counterclaims, religious experience, risks of love, romantic illusions, Romantic Love, romantic love as absolute, romantic mistakes, romantic wager, Signature Project, silver wedding anniversary, strategizing, striking while the iron is hot, Theology Without Walls, theoretical vs practical level, true love, true love and marriage, TWW, unexpected religious experience, unprecedented religious experience, unusual religious experience, wedding anniversary, working class restaurant
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When It Has My Name On It
There are moments that put one’s integrity to the test. They aren’t necessarily to be ranked higher than the everyday moments that only require one to keep on keeping on. In first youth, one dreams of deeds of heroic daring … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic politics, admitting the truth, all that glitters is not gold, answering a call, avoiding a calling, being put on the spot, breaking the silence, career risk, careerism, child abuse, coming out of the closet, courage to grow up, derring-do, dodging a duty, duties one cannot dodge, earned vs phony status, everyday courage, everyday moments, expressing remorse, familial sexual abuse, family loyalty, family tree, father-daughter abuse, go along to get along, gossip, heroic efforts, imaginary heroics, integrity, integrity on the line, integrity's price, Israel, job threats in academe, life between heaven and hell, life challenge, life on the timeline, living normally, missing one's moment, moral blindness, moral challenge, moral courage, moral evasion, moral summons, morality has no gender, normality as heroic, ordinary choice vs moral choice, outward status vs real merit, Paul Newman in Exodus, power threats in academe, PTSD, putting one's honor on the line, real manhood and pretense of manhood, rising to a challenge, sharing a painful truth, social conformism, the call to courage, the call to heroism, the cost of truth, the courage to be normal, the moral dimension, the truth as reinstating reality, war wounds, war wounds and personality change, yearning for extremes, youthful dreams
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The Right to Think
The Right to Think In the dusty arena of public life, we see a contest between the Right to Life and the Right to Choose. There is, however, a third right that gets little or no play in that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", abortion and hypocrisy, abortion and self-defense, academic politics, anatomy is destiny, Applied Ethics, asymmetry of the sexes, childbearing age, choice of evils, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, facing controversy, forced option, freedom to think, Hannah Arendt, live option, marital protection, marital safety, men dominating women, moral tests, obligatory freedom, professional politics, public arena, public space, right to choose, right to life, right to think, Roe v Wade, sex biological and cultural, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, social politics, social safety, status of the unborn, stigmatizing women, Supreme Court abortion case, Talmudic view of abortion, test of character, truth-seeking, unavoidable sins, unhappily pregnant, up against the wall, utopian delusions, vetoed opinions, women's defenses, women's tragic choices, women's vulnerability
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