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The Story that Didn’t End
I hold the view that one’s life is best understood as a True Story with many chapters, the story-line running through one after the other, chronologically and continuously. In the narrative of my life, there was a recent chapter that … Continue reading →
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Tagged a true story reopened, abuse of trust, academic support for Hamas, an unfinished story, animal intuition, barrel racing, brute power vs functional power, campus antisemitism, competitive equestrian events, competitive riding events, concern for Israel, conflict of duties, Country riding, Darwinism, English vs Western riding, escapism, expecting a response, facing the truth, fate in novels, female cattiness, female competitiveness, from the horse's mouth, horse intuitions, horse sense, horse whisperer and rider, horse-whisperer, horses' understanding of people, inadmissable truth, Israel and American Jews, living one’s story, made up stories, Maine, mean girls, misaddressed letter, misreported stories, missing information, moral contradictions, moral dilemma, moral holiday, moral rank-pulling, narrative view, novelists who rely on fate, Oct 7 2023 on my mind, open-minded to a fault, open-mindedness, pedagogic responsibilities, people who know horses, power games, professional horse riding, reaching out for closure, repairing a wrong, riding competitions, riding in Maine, riding instructor, rodeo competitions, sexual competition, silence as a response, status competition, story that needs an ending, survival of the fittest, teaching philosophy, Thomas Hardy effect, Thomas Hardy's novels, Thomas Hardy's use of fate, trivial accidents and important consequences, trivial causes with serious consequences, true story, unacknowledged prejudice, unhappy endings, waiting for closure, Western Pleasure, Western riding, what the horse knows
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A Woman Friend
A Woman Friend To most women, our female friends are of great importance in our lives. If my mother was right when she said, “A friend is a witness to one’s life,” we call in our female friends to witness … Continue reading →
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Tagged a woman’s anger, a woman’s world, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s Confessions of a Young Philosopher, allowing rescue, brutal marriage, childhood trauma, complexity and nuance of woman, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, coquetry, cruel mothers, desirability, diplomacy between women, dismissing religion, early disappointments, emotional wisdom, epicurean lifestyle, erotic happiness, feeling abandoned, female friends, feminine abyss, fragility of friendship, friend as witness, friendship, friendship breakup, go with the flow, ideal justice, incoherent narratives, injuries to self-image, insulting self-image, invisible realities, life struggles, living a true story, made up stories, male ambivalence, marital compatibility, marital partnership, men friends, men friends v women friends, Mr Wrong, personal life solutions, practical wisdom, problematic of justice, realm of thought, resumed friendship, self-protection, sounding board, spoiling others' stories, spoiling the story, supportive friendships, tact between women, thinking women, transcendence for women, travel, true story, woman confidantes, woman’s aims, woman’s self-image, women friends, women rescuing each other, women’s idealism
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Getting to Objectivity
Getting to Objectivity Lately I’ve been reading a book titled What is Fiction For? The British philosopher Bernard Harrison wrote it to defend novels – defend writing them and reading them – from the accusation that they don’t tell the … Continue reading →
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Tagged anomalies, “the earth moved”, Bernard Harrison's What Is Fiction For: Literary Humanism Restored, Charles Dickens, confirming hypotheses, D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover", death of shame, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", erotic intensity, explaining away, false consciousness, fashionable pessimism, fiction as false, Freudian theory, George Eliot, Henry James, horror novels, importance of fiction, importance of novels, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, made up stories, Marxian theory, near-death experiences, novels, novels as untrue, objective truth, out of body experiences, paranormal evidence, physicalism, pornographic novels, post modernism, reading fiction, real-life drama, refuting instances, refuting physicalism, Republican Spain, role of fiction, science fiction novels, scientific explanation, scientific fraud, scientific method, scientism, shame, skepticism, skeptics, sociopaths, surrealist novels, tests of goodness, tests of valor, tests of wisdom, the Frankfurt School, the gamekeeper, the human landscape, theory, Titus Rivas, Titus Rivas Anny Driven & Rudolf H. Smit’s The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, well-confirmed evidence, zombie novels
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Real Life and the Philosophic Life
Real Life and the Philosophic Life Is there any connection between the two? The book I recently fell in love with, John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story, was heartening to me on two fronts. First, the American philosophers, whose … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the divine Plato", 19th century, 19th century optimism, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", American optimism, American Philosophy, archives, Athenian street, Athens, Australian materialism, autobiography, Baruch Spinoza, business mentality, Cephalus, Charles Darwin, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, conventionality, counter-culture, Darwin, Darwinian Laws of Nature, David Stove, David Stove's "Against the Idols of the Tribe", despair, determinism, dialogue, Divine intervention, Evolutionary theory, faith in progress, fate, fictional narrative, go along to get along, God as Witness, God's action, God's role, honesty, John Kaag, John Kaag's "American Philosophy: A Love Story", justice defined, limits of honesty, love life, luck, made up stories, memoir, native grain, New World, overcoming despair, personal pathway, philosophy's tools, Plato, political justice, Pragmatists, promise keeping, providence, pursuit of truth, road less traveled, role of chance, romantic risks, satire, Socrates, Socratic dialectic, Socratic method, Spinoza's Ethics, the God factor, The Name, Tom Wolfe, Tom Wolfe's "The Kingdom of Speech", true love, true stories, truth seeker, truth telling, unconventionality, what rings true, William James, William James' "The Will To Believe"
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