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What Is Truth?
The question, famously put to Jesus by Pontius Pilate, was prompted by Jesus’ self-report that he had come to bear witness to the truth. Without capitalizing “Truth,” so that it acquires other-worldly sound-and-light effects – isn’t bearing witness to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, acculturation and maturation, aesthetic theory, bearing witness, beyond good and evil, celebration of the novel, characters in novels, children’s adaptation to grownups, continental know-it-all, cultural history, culture and meaning, culture as influence on purpose, despair as affectation, destroying the culture, discerning life purpose, discerning one’s purpose, evil defined, evildoers and innocent purposes, evildoers attacking ordinary purpose, fashionable despair, feminine self-respect, fiction and nonfiction, good and evil, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel, initial purposes, intellectual influence, Jesus, ladies don’t believe this creep, libertine Gnosticism, life as a journey, life as a pilgrimage, life as a quest, literary criticism, literary history, mapping and purpose, moral anomie, moral flatness, mutual influence in society, nineteenth-century novels, novelistic life stories, novels and real-life, Pontius Pilate, preferred purposes, pretense of amorality, revising purposes, seducer’s line, seducing the reader, self-definition, self-discovery, self-education, self-respect, stories true and false, story as putting purpose to the test, storylines, subjectivity mischaracterized, technique of seduction, testing purposes, the nature of evil, the novel, trials and errors, true stories, truth and falsehood, truth and postmodernism, truth vs fiction, undermining the culture, What is truth?, what you see is what you get
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Jewish Forgiveness
Jewish Forgiveness For some readers, this title is an oxymoron and might even prompt a double take. Are we talking about non-Jews forgiving Jews, and how they can do it? Surely Jews have a problem with forgiveness and grace. Jews … Continue reading →
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Tagged accepting apologies, analytic ethics, bearing witness, British Analytic Philosophy, careless absolution, cheap grace, Christian culture, Christian forgiveness, common humanity, complexity of forgiveness, concern for justice, Day of Atonement, Emmanuel Levinas, Eve Garrard and David McNaughton's Forgiveness, evil unmitigated, evil's charm, evil's magnetism, excusing wrongdoing, foolish good intentions, foolish well-meaning, forcing good will, forgiveness withheld, forgiver and forgiven, forgiving injuries, generic humanity, God is watching, God's forgiveness, Hassidic master, Holocaust victims, honoring victims, human progress, human solidarity, identifying with wrongdoers, Jewish forgiveness, Jewish v Christian forgiveness, justice v self-interest, law v grace, looking good while being bad, misplaced fellow feeling, moral discernment, moral philosophy, moral vulnerability, parables of Jesus, prodigal son, rabbinic midrash, redeemable evil, repentance, secular viewpoint, self-promotion, self-respect, sincere apology, sincere regret, soul's redemption, spiritual discernment, spiritual intelligence, telling right from wrong, there but for the grace of God, thick skin, wrongdoers reform, Yaffa Eliach’s Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust, Yom Kippur
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