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“Brokenness”
“Brokenness” By “brokenness” I mean what occurs in our psyches, not what happens when a vase shatters on a tile floor. But what is this psychic brokenness? It seems to occur in our conviction that something – whatever it is … Continue reading
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Tagged "Infidel", "Look Homeward Angel", "To Lucasta Going to the Wars", "Witness from Hell: The bravery of a North Korean Escape", "You Can't Go Home Again", a mother's love, argument, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, discursive argument, first love, fragmentation, honor, irreparable, Jay Nordlinger, longing, love ballads, Metropolitan Museum, philosophic verities, repression, revenge, Richard Lovelace, Romance, Romeo and Juliet, substitution, Thomas Wolfe, Titanic, transcendence, true love, vainglory, weddings, Yeonmi Park
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“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire” Sartre and Merleau-Ponty were among the more influential of the twentieth-century’s French philosophers. They had been friends, but Sartre had broken with Merleau-Ponty over some political disagreement. When Merleau-Ponty died in mid-life, prematurely, Sartre felt free to write … Continue reading
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Tagged better angels, café, eulogies, female friendship, first love, fjords, French philosophers, friends, good and evil, heart of darkness, Hegel, Joseph Conrad, Merleau-Ponty, moral choice, morality, Nietzsche, Nordic women, Paris, political disagreement, quarrels, Sartre, sin, unresolved relations, wicked mother
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