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The Election Has Taken Place
In these columns, I’ve preferred to stay clear of the politics of the day. It’s been my experience that honest people do differ, and sometimes even over the most vital issues. I haven’t wanted to use “Dear Abbie” to acquire … Continue reading →
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The Moral Markers
The Moral Markers From time to time, I pause to picture how the recent phases of my life would look to me if there were no God in the pictures. It’s a sort of thought experiment. Philosophers are given to … Continue reading →
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Tagged abstraction, absurdity, agnostic, Atheism, atheistic world view, Authenticity, beyond good and evil, brute forces, complementarity in friendship, concrete experience, consequential decisions, constructive orientation, controlled experiment, cynicism, deleted datum, erasing evidence, experimental confirmation, experimental disconfirmation, false consciousness, fashionable abstractions, fashionable views, feigned belief, fork in the road, Friedrich Nietzsche, integrating experience, limited palette, loyalty v betrayal, Martin Heidegger, meaning of life, meaningful life, models of the ultimate, modern life, Modernity, moral choice, moral fork in the road, moral indices, moral markers, moral neutrality, no rhyme or reason, novelistic plotline, objectivity claims, opinion shapers, opposites attract, pointlessness, power relations, projection, random energy, reality as absurd, relationship dynamics, Social Darwinism, social pretense, survival of the fittest, Swedish descent, the Modern world, the Post-Modern world, theism, theistic world view, thought experiment, Valhalla, Vedantist, Viking worldview
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Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place
Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place Today I finished a good part of what I had to do to prepare the first book I ever wrote, A Good Look at Evil, to reappear in the world. This meant writing a new … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic journals, academic readership, banality of evil, dishonest views, dramatic lives, Eichmann in Jerusalem, evidence for God, evidence for Providence, Evil, evil as counter-story, fashionable views, Hannah Arendt, life as puzzle, Michelangelo’s Kneeling Boy, narrative theory, negative story, nonfiction narrative, nonfiction plotlines, novelistic lives, philosophic articles, philosophic publication, providence, Public Intellectual, puzzle pieces, reprint, revisions, specialized readership, true stories, willful evil
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