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Closure
Closure Whatever the world understands by “closure” – peace of mind after mental storms, acceptance after bitter loss, resetting of purposes after frustration, a body to bring home for burial after a shattering search – I mean something different and … Continue reading →
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Tagged a daughter's duty, a different drummer, acceptance, archivists, bohemian conventions, bohemian life, boundaries of talent, closure, Columbia University’s class of 1925, concrete universal, counter culture, cultural diagnostic, deathbed communication, derivative life, discovering significance, emotional patricide, energy that speaks, escaping conventions, father/daughter relationship, filial debts, filial impiety, filial obligations, filial piety, first-hand life, genius, hearing summonses, Henry M. Rosenthal, hippies, honoring one's father, intellectual memoir, intelligibility of history, Lewis and Clark, life journey, lifelong quest, living in parental shadow, living with depth, love that moves the stars, metaphysical forces, Northwest Passage, original purposes, peace of mind, personal epiphanies, philosophy professor, psychoanalytic stratagems, quest attained, reset, spirit of an era, story-like lives, the light of eternity, willfully unconventional, world-changing events
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Filial Piety
Filial Piety I once wrote an article whose original title was “Filial Piety.” That’s the category under which people used to cite the duties and types of honor that children were thought to owe their parents. Every philosophical journal to … Continue reading →
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Tagged a life of one's own, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "The Filial Art", American-Jewish Joyce, child abuse, child of a genius, childhood, classical virtues, Clifton Fadiman, Columbia class of 1925, deathbed, deathbed communication, deathbed lamentation, deathbed regret, deathbed vision, Diana Trilling, Diana Trilling’s The Beginning of the Journey, escape velocity, escaping the parental shadow, eulogy, family obligations, father-daughter relation, filial duties, filial piety, genius, hearing in a coma, Henry M. Rosenthal papers, Henry M. Rosenthal's The Consolations of Philosophy, honor thy father and mother, influential models, James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, life influence, life secrets, life world, Lionel Trilling, living one’s own life, love and forces in physics, mother/daughter relation, New York of the 1930s, parting benediction, paternal legacy, paternal shadow, paying one’s debts, personal effects, personal hiddenness, philosophical article, philosophical journal, philosophical legacy, physical forces, posthumous publication, stunted life, The class genius, the year of the plague, uncompromising, unpublished manuscript, wordless communication
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Beatrice in Modern Gear
Beatrice in Modern Gear “Thou “who, to bring my soul to Paradise, Didst leave the imprint of thy steps in hell …” So wrote Dante of Beatrice at the end of his Divine Comedy. “The eternal feminine leads us above.” … Continue reading →
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Tagged 14th century, ancient v modern, Aristotelian worldview, Aristotle, bad faith, Beatrice, breakfast with philosophers, chivalry, contemporary novel, courtly love, Dante’s Divine Comedy, deathbed communication, deathbed vision, delusional attachments, delusive ideals, disenchantment, disillusionment, enabling, feminist worldview, Goethe's Faust, good advice, idealization of woman, inauthenticity, Inner world vs external world, intelligible world, Kipling’s Kim, love’s power, mechanistic view of nature, medieval poet, medieval politics, mind/body problem, modern physics, modern psychology, Modernity, noble ideals, outdated chivalry, primary v secondary qualities, purposive worldview, randomness in physics, sacrificial love, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Sartre’s cafe scene, saving one’s beloved, saving souls, scientific outlook, self-sacrifice, subjective v objective, teleology, the eternal feminine, the feminine ideal, therapeutic outlook, universal genius, your place or mine
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