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The Meanings of Our Lives

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Abigail

The Meanings of Our Lives People commit suicide when their lives seem to them meaningless. At least, that’s been my experience, which I’ll share with you. I’ve talked two women friends out of killing themselves, which they seemed quite serious … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, bad faith, beauty, books, bureaucracy, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Courage, Courtship, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Female Power, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, Guilt and Innocence, Hegel, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master/slave relation, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modern Women, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Mortality, Mysticism, nineteenth-century, novels, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Political Movements, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romantic Love, Romanticism, scientism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, slave, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, 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, Utopia, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 12-step program, 13-step, a culture's sense of meaning, AA, absolutist solutions, abstract universal, accepting imperfections, Al-Anon, art of compromise, Bolshevik revolution, book contract, book proposals, Communist ideology, Communists and state power, concrete universal, courts and justice, democracy and patriotism, don't fake it, eternal feminine, facing life's challenges, faith and force, fall of Constantinople, Feminine pride, friend in crisis, future of Russia, Greek Orthodox Church, healing despair, human imperfections, ideal self-image, Igor Kliamkin's Demilitarization as a Historical and Cultural Issue, insulting a woman, just be there, learning to compromise, living through the Holocaust, looking for meaning, losing a book contract, meaning in culture, meaning of life, meaninglessness, Modern attitudes, Mother Russia, Nazi death camps, occult lore, pay attention, political compromises, publisher rejections, publisher's priorities, readership, reincarnation, reincarnation and suicide, representative government, respecting the law, Russia and the rule of law, Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology eds. Mikhail Sergeev Alexander Chumakov Mary Theis, Russian politics, seducer's manipulation tactics, slave labor, suicide, suicide watch, suicide's contagion, talking it out, talking out of suicide, the human condition, the people's allegiance, the Russian people, tragedy of Russia, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, wholesome American girl, will to live, women's malice | Leave a comment

Saints, Lovers and Writers

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Abigail

Saints, Lovers and Writers Girls and women tend to think that their work is an addendum, an add-on, to the main event: life. I have published books and articles, given papers internationally, fought for the right to teach philosophy without … Continue reading →

Posted in Absurdism, Action, Afterlife, Art, Art of Living, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, Childhood, Christianity, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Femininity, Feminism, Films, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Law, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, Medieval, Memoir, memory, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, motherhood, Mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Movements, politics of ideas, Power, presence, promissory notes, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, social ranking, 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, twenty-first century, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", academic press, beautiful movie stars, biblical couples, biblical women, book contract, braving ridicule, canonization, Catholic saints, Catholicism, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover", divine-human partnership, editors, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", eros, fight for truth, Gandhi, great lover, greatness in women, heroes of the spirit, heroic wives, Hindu, Hinduism, holiness, human and divine eros, inauthenticity, Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, intellectual courage, intercession, intimacy, Jennifer Jones's Song of Bernadette, lapsed Catholics, Lord Byron's "Don Juan", man behind the curtain, marginalization, mental fight, miracle cure, miracles at Lourdes, peasant girls, phoniness, pilgrimage, pilgrims, prayer, purity, Rachel in Genesis, religion of Israel, reprinting, ridicule, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, sainthood, saints, Sarah in Genesis, seeing a vision, self-sacrifice, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the lame the halt and the blind, The Wizard of Oz, truthfulness, young girls | Leave a comment

Great Scott! A Publisher?

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Abigail

Great Scott! A Publisher? My book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, was completed not long ago and since then I’ve turned to the much less inviting project of finding a publisher for it. Writing it was a very interesting, private … Continue reading →

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