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Women, Women, Women
I know of two instances where fair-minded young mothers brought their child custody disputes before a judge. In each case, the fact that the judge turned out to be a woman caused the plaintiff’s heart to sink, anticipating the worst … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beauvoir and Sartre, believe your lying eyes, biology vs ideology, child custody disputes, equity feminism, existentialism and feminism, faculty women, femininity and human nature, feminism and the human story, feminism and true love, feminism's absent theory, feminism's philosophic foundation, feminisms gains and losses, feminisms victory and defeats, feminist activists, feminist anti-essentialism, feminist betrayal, feminist case histories, feminist illusions, feminist infighting, feminist magazine, feminist theory, feminists and feminine nature, French existentialism, goddess worship, happy-ever-after, Harriet Taylor, hen party, husbandly protection, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, matriarchy, Phyllis Chesler’s Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, popular girl, postmodernism and feminism, public feminists, romantic endings, Sartre and freedom, Sartre’s betrayal of Beauvoir, Sartre’s Fundamental Project, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, stigmatizing women, true love, utilitarianism, woman philosopher, women and conformism, women as fair-minded, women confidantes, women not different from men, women philosophers, women's vulnerability, women’s acculturation, women’s gossip, women’s illusions, women’s legal equality, women’s negative freedom, women’s ruthlessness to women, women’s unkindness to women, yin and yang
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The Big City and Me
The Big City and Me I went to New York for an overnight last Thursday. This trip had been postponed for at least a year, during which I was dealing with one huge difficulty after another. Through the times and … Continue reading →
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A Good Look at Evil’s Second Edition
A Good Look at Evil’s Second Edition The author’s advance copy of my expanded second edition of A Good Look at Evil, arrived Friday. The look of it is entirely gorgeous. To have such endorsements, from opinion-shapers of recognized importance … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th century culture, A. E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Adam Kirsch, advance copy, analytic philosophers, ancient Greeks, arête, Aristotle, at the mercy of appetite, attractive lies, author's aims, authority figures, be the best that you can be, Biblical narrative, blurbs, book cover, book publication, celebrity, champion athlete, climbing the mountain, Columbia class of 1925, common culture, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cultural ancestors, cultural forebearers, cunning of evil, dialogue, Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen", elegiac poem, endorsements, evil's reality, excellence, facing facts, fame, father/daughter relationship, feminist activists, filial piety, flawless performance, force of circumstance, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, Gail Godwin, gifted novelist, glory, going wrong, hazards of life, Henry M. Rosenthal, ignorance, inflated egos, inter-ethnic conversation, interdenominational conversation, international conversation, jacket copy, life achievement, life aims, life goals, life of pleasure, literary critics, literary talent, manipulative purposes, missing your moment, misuse of words, moral vision, narrow minds, narrowness, noble aims, nonwestern cultures, Olympic athlete, opinion shapers, pagan culture, peak performance, Phyllis Chesler, pleasure, power of evil, public disfavor, public favor, public intellectuals, pursuit of pleasure, reality checks, revised edition, seizing your moment, snares of pleasure, The Bible, The class genius, the longest conversation, The Olympics, the struggle with evil, the vices, top of one's game, true lies, uncultivated mind, virtue, Western culture, William Lycan, winning the match, winning the race, wrong intentions, x-ray vision
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