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When It Has My Name On It
There are moments that put one’s integrity to the test. They aren’t necessarily to be ranked higher than the everyday moments that only require one to keep on keeping on. In first youth, one dreams of deeds of heroic daring … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic politics, admitting the truth, all that glitters is not gold, answering a call, avoiding a calling, being put on the spot, breaking the silence, career risk, careerism, child abuse, coming out of the closet, courage to grow up, derring-do, dodging a duty, duties one cannot dodge, earned vs phony status, everyday courage, everyday moments, expressing remorse, familial sexual abuse, family loyalty, family tree, father-daughter abuse, go along to get along, gossip, heroic efforts, imaginary heroics, integrity, integrity on the line, integrity's price, Israel, job threats in academe, life between heaven and hell, life challenge, life on the timeline, living normally, missing one's moment, moral blindness, moral challenge, moral courage, moral evasion, moral summons, morality has no gender, normality as heroic, ordinary choice vs moral choice, outward status vs real merit, Paul Newman in Exodus, power threats in academe, PTSD, putting one's honor on the line, real manhood and pretense of manhood, rising to a challenge, sharing a painful truth, social conformism, the call to courage, the call to heroism, the cost of truth, the courage to be normal, the moral dimension, the truth as reinstating reality, war wounds, war wounds and personality change, yearning for extremes, youthful dreams
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Pixels Thin and Thick
Pixels Thin and Thick On the day I got married, Jerry said to me after the ceremony, “Look in the mirror!” Puzzled, I pulled down the car mirror, looked, and said aloud, My God! I looked different. Like a photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", American Philosophical Association, animal ethology, animal flirting, animal friendships, being where I should be, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, dense presence, depressed animals, Eric Voegelin Society, familiar landmarks, father-daughter relation, feeling abandoned, feeling precarious, filial duty, filial obligation, first love, frontier of experience, haunting memory, interspecies friendship, life challenge, life problematic, life purpose resolved, life question, life themes, lifelong purposes, loneliness, orangutans, otters, painful memories, Parisian first love, personal history, pitching podcasts, Romantic memory, romantic terminus, story's end, thinning presence, unfamiliar situation, unmapped terrain, unprecedented experience, untrodden territory, VoegelinView, writing what you believe, zoo habitats
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