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Death, Dying, and Heroes
Death, Dying, and Heroes Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear people say that they’re not afraid of death, just of dying. I think this is heard more frequently than it used to be. The news that consciousness does survive the … Continue reading →
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Tagged a son's recollections, a time to die, academics, afterlife, art of dying, Art of Living, becoming who one is, bereavement, bodily ills, brain death, cancer, courage, death, dying, ebbing natural force, extraordinary people, father and son, father-in-law, father-son relations, fear of death, fear of doctors, going to the light, good storyteller, grace, gratitude to caregivers, heaven and hell, heroes, hospice care, lasting love, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, letting go, letting nature take its course, losing power, marital love, natural force, navigating old age, not being fooled, opinion shapers, ordinary people, patience in dying, philosophers, plain speech, retirement facility, reviewers, secular humanists, self-containment, self-renewal, self-restraint, social scientists, storytelling, straight talk, subtle realism, surrender in dying, surviving death, tai chi class, Texas in the 1920s, Texas speech, the humanities, theologians, unembellished speech, walkers, worldly cares
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“The Real World”
“The Real World” Is there a real world? There are those who deny it, and they are not the smallest fry in the ranks of the influential. I’ve been reading a new book called Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish, a … Continue reading →
Posted in absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, journalism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, male power, masculinity, master, memoir, memory, mind control, modernism, mortality, non-violence, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, reductionism, relationships, roles, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, social climbing, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, status, status of women, suffering, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theology, TV, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", argument, bad arguments, candor, coherence theory, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, contradiction, correspondence theory, doxa, dying, eloquence, embarrasment, epistemolgy, external world, facing death, fallacy, George Orwell, George Orwell's "1984", group consensus, honesty, inconsistency, influence, informal fallacies, informal logic, irrelevancy, language, last days, linguistic construction of reality, literary theory, losers, martial arts, Mind Control, modesty, noesis, non sequitur, norms, opinions, Orwell's "Animal Farm", Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" 1946, paradigm, Persuasion, persuasive power, picturing, post modernism, Power, pragmatic theory, real world, relevancy, rhetoric, silence, simplicity, Socrates, Sophistry, Stanley Fish, Stanley Fish's "Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics the Bedroom the Courtroom and the Classroom", terminal cancer, the God's eye view, The Gorgias, theories of truth, truth, TV debates, understanding, view from nowhere, visualizing, winners, winners and losers, winning and losing, wordsmith, world views
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Landscapes of the Heart
Landscapes of the Heart I hadn’t been to Manhattan (my home town) in over two years. But last week I went into town to meet my life-long friends, Frank and Ada, at the Neue Gallerie on 86th and Fifth. That’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art, art of living, autonomy, beauty, Bible, childhood, Christianity, cities, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, culture, desire, dialectic, eighteenth century, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, immortality, Jews, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, memoir, memory, modernism, mortality, nineteenth-century, oppression, past and future, peace, political movements, power, propaganda, psychology, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, romance, seduction, sex appeal, sexuality, social conventions, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged 9/11/01, ancient regime, art gallery, artifacts, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Buddhist, cab drivers, Central Park, character assasination, Christian, city life, civic life, civic wounds, coquettrie, court painter, deal-making, death, death scenes, defamation, dorm life, dying, eavesdropping, Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch's "The Scream", energy, Evangelical Christian, Existential dilemmas, farewells, feminine intelligence, French Revolution, German Expressionism, gossip, graveyards, guillotine, healing, Hebrew prayer, homesickness, igneous rock, internet shopping, landscape, last words, love of New York, love of Texas, Lower Manhattan, Loyalty, Marie Antoinette, mourning, Neue Gallerie, New World Trade Center, New Yorkers, Norwegian painters, nostalgia, painting, personal identity, pied à terre, portrait painting, psalm, rebirth, recollection, Reign of Terror, repair process, reputation, resurrection, skyline, skyscrapers, slander, small shops, small town life, social wounds, sociopaths, soul of a city, Spring, Twin Towers, Viennese cafés, Viennese pastries, Vigée Le Brun, will to live, World Trade Center, World War I, wounds
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“Where Is God?”
“Where Is God?” We flew to Southern California this week, to look in on my father-in-law. He lives in a town near San Bernadino, the now-famous site of the latest mass murders. Over the four-day period of our trip, while … Continue reading →
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Tagged adventure stories, adventures, afterlife, afterlife rewards, air travel, anthropologists, authority, bad guys, believers, boyhood, buccaneers, care, classroom discipline, classroom disruption, crewmen, Dante's Inferno, destiny, dying, faithfulness, falsehood, fate, field work, God, golden rule, good guys, Good Orderly Direction, guilty minds, heaven and hell, heroes, ideas, ideology, Jurgen Ziewe's Vistas of Infinity, love of neighbor, Loyalty, magic, mass murder, maturity, mistaken ideas, mutaneers, mutineers, piety, pirates, Portuguese fishing village, punishments, realism, respect, responsibility, rewards, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, San Bernadino, sea captains, seamen, security, Southern California, Success, survival, symbolism, the Other, the political animal, the speaking animal, treasure, triumph, truth, unbelievers, victimizers, victims, Victor Zammit, victory, violent jihadis
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“Far Memory”
“Far Memory” Let’s suppose for a moment that we live many lives, as different personalities in a variety of circumstances. The TV documentaries on reincarnation, and the past life regressions available online, allow us to meet individuals who seem to … Continue reading →
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Tagged African, afterlife, aloneness, dying, evidence, fetish, fluidity of identity, Hindu, human sacrifice, hypnosis, imagination, India, Israel, Leo Bronstein, magic, Mayan, memory, past life regressions, personal identity, popular culture, reincarnation, rites, spirituality, Western culture, witch doctor
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