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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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Shunning
Shunning We are social beings, so nobody likes to be shunned. I first encountered shunning after I wrote a letter to Proceedings and Addresses. That’s the journal where schedules for philosophic meetings are posted, academic publishers place ads for their … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, eighteenth century, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, journalism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, oppression, past and future, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged AAUW, abrasive manner, academic publisher, APA’s Memorial Minutes, APA’s Presidential Address, APA’s Proceedings and Addresses, borough president, cattiness, censoring dissent, Committee of Public Safety, congressman, Cotton Mather, CUNY Board of Trustees, derogatory remarks, dining alone, discrimination against women, enjoying solitude, errors of fact and logic, ethnic facial features, feminist controversy, feminist philosophers, feminist self-criticism, first Puerto Rican, ganging up, gay feminists, gender discrimination, getting denounced, groupthink, Harvard presidency, Herman Badillo, imaginary crimes, Larry Summers, losing political power, loss of power, Mayans and Incas, mean girls, moment of silence, Moral psychology, Parisian aristocrats, philosophic journal, Place de la Revolution, political enemies, political influence, political rivalry, pre-Columbian appearance, public higher ed, public space, Salem witch trials, sensitive remarks, shunning, Social beings, social climbing, social demotion, speaking one’s mind, Stephen Vincent Benét, the Guillotine, the right people, the tumbrils, thought police, unsung heroes, virtue signaling, woman philosopher, women and academics, women in hard science, women’s professors
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Why Women Are Mean to Other Women
Why Women Are Mean to Other Women Whew! This is a touchy subject. Almost taboo, since we are these days denominated the compassionate, caring, anti-violence sex. Labels of these kinds call to mind the way 19th-century suffragettes made the case … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century, American Philosophical Association, androgyny, anti-war women, APA, bad women, badness and goodness, cattiness, choreography, dance of courtship, domesticity, erotic polarities, female attractiveness, forging freedom, Francis Thomson’s In No Strange Land, free will, gender roles, good men, good women, gossip, helpmeet, living one’s story, male brutality, male cruelty, male/female polarity, man/woman asymmetry, man/woman choreography, manliness, maternal coldness, maternal virtues, mean girls, Mean women, moral difference, motherhood, nature v nurture, nurturing, philosophical argument, Plato’s Symposium, public v private, real men, real women, reigning orthodoxy, same-sex eros, sensitizing men, sex and gender, sex differences, sexual attraction, social constructs, suffragettes, sympathy for women, the caring sex, the compassionate sex, the feminist movement, time and fertility, timeless attraction, touchy subject, true stories, unisex, virility, winners and losers, women against violence, women against women, women in competition, women in the kitchen, women in the nursery, women’s caring, women’s compassion, yin and yang, youth and attractiveness
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