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Where Is the Happy Ending?
Stories, as I see them, are supposed to come out right. And here’s what I mean by “right.” It’s nothing deep, mysterious or esoteric. Our romantic couple rides off into the Western sunset. They have the time for their trip, … Continue reading →
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Tagged 36 righteous, academic politics, academic romance, academic victory, adult ed, anti-Jewish cartoons, campus anti-semites, Chronicle of Higher Education, conflict and congregations, core curriculum, cowboy gets the girl, cowboys, criterion for righteous deeds, defending Jewish students, Evangelicals and Zionism, facing justice, fashionable victims, former terrorist, good guys and bad guys, good story with bad ending, grace under anti-semitic pressure, grace under persecution, grace under pressure, happy ending, holier than thou, how things ought to be, inappropriate with women, Israel Consul vs Quakers, Kasim Hafeez's Never Again?, Lamed Vavnik, liberal arts program, love and marriage, metric for righteous deeds, miraculous cure, miraculous cure for anti-semitism, mitzvah, moral high ground, moral holiday, ousting a predator, philosophy department at Brooklyn College, philosophy professor, Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis Chesler's The New Anti-Semitism, politics in the real world, prayer and miracle, Presbyterians and BDS, public debate, pulling moral rank, rabbinical search committee, Reformed Temple, remembering the story, reprisals vs whistleblower, righteous deeds, righteous deeds vs chaos, righteous warrior, safeguarding the story, sanctimony, saving the core curriculum, search committee, StandWithUs, Stephen Spector, Stephen Spector's Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism, stories ending wrongly, suffering of Jewish students, synagogue congregants, targeting Jewish students, trauma and recovery, unequal power relations, Western movies, whistleblower's trauma
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Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel!
Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel! Hegel is one of the philosophers from whom I’ve learned a lot. Though he was born and died in nineteenth-century Germany, he’s still timely. In the Anglo-American sphere, the question I get is, “What’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century philosophy Anglo-American philosophy, academic scandal, acquiring wisdom, administrative regulations, belief and identity, blacklisting, brute force, cancel culture, caste system, civil society, collegial friendship, contextual knowing, Continental philosophy, Corneille, cultural knowing, damn-fool scrape, deathbed regrets, decoding fiction, democratic infrastructure, democratic institutions, denouncers denounced, destroyed status, dishonoring, dominant group, Empiricists, enemy of the people, false beliefs, federal system, fictional characters, freedom unalloyed, French Revolution, G.W.F. Hegel, German philosophy, getting smart, guillotine, he said she said, historical forces, homo sapiens sapiens, human fairness, human governance, human unfairness, identity politics, inability to lie, inherited privilege, instant freedom, involuntary, Jane Austen, life achievement, life of ideas, lost standing, Marxism, Marxist materialism, mass executions, material cause, means of production, mediating institutions, metaphysical idealism, moral high ground, mutual mercy, mutual understanding, natural disasters, novelistic, Oppression, personal identity, philosophic friendship, plagues in history, political bullies, political center, political denunciation, political dissenter, political mobbing, popular demand, power dynamic, power relations, power to the people, professional standing, protective truths, pulling moral rank, raw data, Reign of Terror, revolutionary aims, sense perception, Shakespeare, shared fantasy, social standing, student/professor eros, the general will, tricoteuses, true beliefs, unconscious power, victim power, voluntary, voluntary associations, who seduced whom, world views
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World History and Me
World History and Me Last night I watched a documentary about the “discovery” by Europeans of the Western Hemisphere – that vast tract of land between Europe and the India that the spice-hunters sought. In my childhood, that discovery was … Continue reading →
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Tagged 10 commandments, 16th century advances, 17th century colonists, advances in navigation, advances in ship-building, advances in world trade, adventurers, American good guys, American guilt, ancient Israelites, animal nature, australopithecines, biblical battles, Biblical historicity, Bronze Age cities, cherem, chosen people, co-religionists, collective atonement, collective guilt, collective penance, colonization, conquest of the weak, conquistadores, Darwinians, defeat of the weakest, depopulation, discovery of America, European diseases, European exploration, European massacres, evolutionary survival, exile, explorers, extinction of hominids, fossil record, genocide, God's blueprint, God's people, God's sovereignty, hegemony, historical guilt, Homer, hominid competition, hominids, homo erectus, homo naledi, homo neanderthalensis, homo sapiens sapiens, hypocrisy, idol worship, indigenous peoples, interpersonal aggression, Israelite wars of destruction, Jesus, Maccabees, man as animal, manipulative moralizing, missionaries, moral high ground, moral posturing, moral rank-pulling, Native Americans, natural defenses, Nazi bad guys, Nazi language, New World, niceness and brutality, Nietzsche, non-fiction narrative, non-violence, Old Testament God, organized pogroms, pagan ways, Pentateuch, personal history, pioneers, policing language, political theory, pre-Columbian population, promised land, psychological self-defense, Queen Isabella, religious non-violence, religious violence, Roman hegemony, securing territory, small pox, survival of the fittest, survival of the strongest, territorial defense, theory of history, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Torah Study, Trojan War, TV documentary, violence, virgin continent, virtue signaling, voyage of Columbus, war of all against all, will-to-power
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“Style”
“Style” Years ago, my acupuncturist used to know a guru named Ramamurti. He still has a following, although he has since passed to his reward. I am told that there are ashrams in Pennsylvania now dedicated to this guru. How … Continue reading →
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“Is ‘Right and Wrong’…Wrong?”
“Is ‘Right and Wrong’ … Wrong?” One time I had registration duty at the opening of fall term. Along with other faculty representing their departments, I sat on one side of a long table. Students would approach from the other … Continue reading →
Posted in Cool, Culture, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, The Examined Life
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Tagged authority, fantasy, fear, good and evil, heroes, inner voice, intuition, judgment, moral, moral high ground, non-judgmental, Right and Wrong, sexy, Torah, Vietnam, villains
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