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In Quest of Healing
We are just back from one of our weeks in California, in quest of healing for my neuropathy. As I’ve said here before, the experimental treatment on offer at Loma Linda’s neuropathy clinic sees the illness as the result of … Continue reading
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Philosophy and Me
Philosophy and Me Goodness, who cares! you might well think, seeing the title of this column. But isn’t that what concerns each of us, whenever we’ve been required or drawn to read some philosophy? What about me? How does this … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th-century nihilism, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", benefits of philosophy, Classical skepticism, competing moral claims, competing truth claims, condemnation syndrome, contemporary philosophers, cultural guilt, current intellectual life, Descartes and the moderns, dominance v subordination, exercises of power, finding common ground, Greco-Roman culture, guilt and regret, hypocrisy, implicit absolutism, intellectual common ground, intercultural disputes, Jesuits of the Sorbonne, Kepler and Galileo, manipulative accusers, manipulative use of guilt, oppressed and oppressor, pagans v Christians, philosophers and guilt, philosophers as midwives of history, philosophic skill, philosophy as its own warrant, philosophy as personal, philosophy making a difference, philosophy the longest conversation, post-modernism and objective truth, post-modernism and objective values, post-modernism and philosophy, significance of philosophy, silence of philosophy, St. Augustine, the task of philosophy, unmasking power plays
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