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“Thankfulness”
Abbie is unable to write a new column this week because she and her husband, Jerry Martin, are stuck in Denver, CO, where a succession of flights home have been canceled. She and Jerry were in Denver for a fascinating … Continue reading
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“Thankfulness”
“Thankfulness” The other day, in the Saturday morning Torah Study class at my Reform temple, we were studying the verses on the ancient temple cultus detailed – and I mean detailed – in the Book of Leviticus. My patience with these Memory … Continue reading
Posted in academe, action, alienation, cultural politics, culture, desire, erotic life, faith, friendship, guilt and innocence, history, ideology, philosophy, psychology
Tagged anger, bad faith, blessings, candor, collective community, Committee of Public Safety, consensus, convenant, decorum, dissent, Foucault, French Revolution, gratitude, Hebrew Scripture, homophobia, honesty, ideality, inauthenticity, insensitivity, Islamophobia, Israel, kibbutz, Leviticus, Mount Sinai, personal sincerity, politeness, Political Corrrectness, popularity, prayer, racism, ritual, sacrifice, sexism, Thanksgiving, The Archaeological Method, The Terror, Thought Crimes, Torah Study, unity
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“Thankfulness”
“Thankfulness” The other day, in the Saturday morning Torah Study class at my Reform temple, we were studying the verses on the ancient temple cultus detailed – and I mean detailed – in the Book of Leviticus. My patience with … Continue reading
Posted in academe, action, alienation, culture, desire, erotic life, faith, friendship, guilt and innocence, history, ideology, philosophy, psychology
Tagged anger, bad faith, blessings, candor, collective community, Committee of Public Safety, consensus, convenant, decorum, dissent, Foucault, French Revolution, gratitude, Hebrew Scripture, homophobia, honesty, ideality, inauthenticity, insensitivity, Islamophobia, Israel, kibbutz, Leviticus, Mount Sinai, personal sincerity, politeness, Political Corrrectness, popularity, prayer, racism, ritual, sacrifice, sexism, Thanksgiving, The Archaeological Method, The Terror, Thought Crimes, Torah Study, unity
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“Confessions of a Young Philosopher”
“Confessions of a Young Philosopher” These days I am bringing to final form a new book titled, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. So what’s the “confession” part? And what’s the “philosopher” part? Why do I give the book that name? … Continue reading
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Tagged accusers, apology, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Hirsi Ali "Nomad", Azar Nafisi, Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolita in Tehran", biblical persons, biblical time, change agents, Christian Europe, classical era, concubines, confession, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, counter-examples, crimes, defense, dissent, embodied ideas, evidence, Feminism, Greco-Roman antiquity, Hegel "Reason in History", identity, Latin civilization, living dialectically, living your truth, Manicheanism, menacing, misdeeds, missteps, Mona Eltahawy, Mona Eltahawy "Headscarves and Hymens", Muslim women, Neo-Platonism, Noni Darwish, Noni Darwish "Now They Call Me Infidel", paradigm, persona, Plato, Plato "The Apology", Qanta Ahmed, Qanta Ahmed "In The Land of Invisible Women", Rafia Zakaria, Rafia Zakaria "The Upstairs Wife", repression, Roman circuses, secrets, self-transformation, social mask, social risk, spiritual autobiography, St. Augustine, St. Augustine "Confessions", truth and falsity, truth seeker, woman philosopher, women heroes, women's aculturation, world-historical figures
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