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Paradigm Shifts
Paradigm Shifts We live under the sheltering umbrellas of our worldviews. To the point where we would feel naked if we were caught in the street without them. That being the case (that we run around conceptually clothed, whether we … Continue reading
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“The Politics of Ideas”
“The Politics of Ideas” They say you are what you eat, but it’s been my experience that you are what you believe. People live and die for the ideas they believe to be true. What is more, people dress, work … Continue reading
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“Living in History”
“Living in History” That’s a theme of mine, though it’s easier to give the theme a name than to say exactly what it means. I can hone in on it by at least by saying what it’s not. If you … Continue reading
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“Cowboy Up”
“Cowboy Up” Like many girls, I’ve always loved horses. What does that mean? I don’t know if it has to mean anything. When there were still dray horses on Madison Avenue, the household sugar cubes used to disappear into … Continue reading
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Tagged a moral man, afterlife, childhood, cow ponies, cowboys, Czar, dialectic, dray horses, equitation, evolution, high country, horseback riding, horses, Hussar, Montana, ranch, runaway horse, Texan, theories, Westerns, wilderness
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“Philosophy”
“Philosophy” As a little girl, I would set the lunch table extra slowly so that I could overhear the philosophic conversations between my father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and Léo Bronstein, his closest friend. Understanding not a word, I still liked … Continue reading
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Tagged Analytic philosophy, Australian materialism, élan vital, Bergson, Camus, communism, Continental philosophy, dialectic, Enlightenment, fascism, Femininity, Freud, George Weigel, Henry M. Rosenthal, human conversation, laws of history, Leo Bronstein, meaningful life, Newtonian science, Nietzsche, philosophy, progress, reality, Social Darwinism, technology, The Great War, Utopianism, WWI
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“Cool”
“Cool” It is a fact of social life – perhaps a bizarre fact – that needful and strenuous efforts can be overshadowed by someone, anyone, who is dubbed “cool.” It’s a praise word that shines on the just and the … Continue reading
