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“Theism, Philosophy and Me”
“Theism, Philosophy and Me” All weekend, recovering from a cold and feeling more dead than alive, I’ve been giving myself a crash course in philosophical theism. Theism is the belief in a personal God, who cares about you and me, … Continue reading →
Posted in academe, action, alienation, contemplation, contradictions, culture, desire, dialectic, ethics, evil, faith, fashion, guilt and innocence, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, life and death struggle, ontology, philosophy, political, power, psychology, reductionism, relationships, roles, social conventions, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, twentieth century, violence, war, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Ambassador Morganthau's Story by Henry Morganthau, analytic philosophers, Anglo-American Philosophy, argument, Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, Armenian massacres, Atheism, causal chain, Christian theism, Continental philosophy, detective stories, dialogue, Epistemology, existence of God, experience of the Divine, falsifiable, genocide, human evil, naturalism, Perceiving God by William P. Alston, personal God, personal narrative, Phenomenology, Phenomenology of religious experience, physicalism, politics of ideas, prayer, proof, sceptics, scientific theories, sense data, sense perception, sincerity and authenticity, The Epistemology of Religious Experience by Keith E. Yandell, theism, theists v atheists, tough-minded philosophers, Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, World War I
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“Valentine’s Day”
“Valentine’s Day” Jerry and I have each been working single-mindedly on editing our respective books. The editing process has its own kind of tension. It is not the open-ended agony of scripting the original draft, where you don’t know if … Continue reading →
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Tagged action, Art, Brooklyn College, cafes, Carnegie Museum, celebrations, contemplation, creativity, detective stories, divine design, editing, Frick Museum, God and nature, horses, Jewish advocacy, Jewish Museum, Jewish ritual, Jewish self-defense, Jewish study, love, Manhattan life, Marriage, Metropolitan Museum, moral values, Museum of the City of New York, museums, National Academy of Design, Nature, Pennsylvania Impressionists, philosophy, privacy, rent-controlled apartments, romantic conversations, spiritual purpose, St. Valentine's, treasure hunt, Upper East Side, Valentine's Day, writing
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