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The Three-Tiered Real World
The Three Tiers: The Everyday, The Moral and The Spiritual As of last night, we’re back from the Eric Voegelin Society meetings in Boston, where Jerry and I each gave talks. The late Eric Voegelin is not widely known … Continue reading →
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The Puzzle of Hannah Arendt
The career of Hannah Arendt is surely one of the oddest on record. Doubt has been cast on claims for which she was best known. Yet her posthumous prestige as a political theorist seems largely unaffected by any refutations of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's Spoiling One's Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Arendt and Heidegger, Arendt in social life, Arendt’s coverup, Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt’s excuses for Heidegger, Arendt’s Heidegger at 80, Arendt’s insight in her own case, Arendt’s personal survival smarts, Arendt’s self-concern, denying evil, denying evil as reality, denying guilt, Eichmann as ordinary bureaucrat, Eichmann’s conscience, Eichmann’s lack of regret, evil as banal, evil not banal, excuses for evil, excusing evil, excusing guilt, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt’s career, Heidegger and Husserl, Heidegger bans Jewish students, Heidegger betrays Husserl, Heidegger's Jewish students, Heidegger’s ingratitude to Husserl, history and reality, history's real stories, in Arendt’s own case evil is not banal, influencing public opinion, intellectual career, intellectual woman, just following orders, misdeeds without regret, moral insight as an aid to survival, moral relativism, moral transgressions, Nazis directing the Holocaust, political theorist, pretending innocence, psychological determinism, public acclaim and posthumous prestige, rewriting history, senior Nazi official, sleeping with the enemy, Stangneth’s Eichmann Before Jerusalem, strategies of the Holocaust, student/teacher affair, survival and moral insight, the excuse of following orders, the real Hannah Arendt
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Must Our Stories Come Out Right?
In my passage from childhood to young girlhood, there were two stories I relied on for clues about the life that lay ahead of me. The first was Homer’s Odyssey. The second was Joseph and His Brothers (from Genesis 37-50) … Continue reading →
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Tagged a daughter’s sorrows, a mother’s secret, a woman’s sorrows, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "God and the Care for One's Story", appeasement, Athena’s rejuvenating gift, Biblical high drama, bystanders’ denial of evil, Cain and Abel, calling evil by its name, Christianity’s doctrine of original sin, Christianity’s view of sin, clever enemies, clues for living, coat of many colors, divine help, divine intervention helping nature, effective enemies, encountering evil, enemies of the story, exile and homecoming, figuring out one’s parents, fratricide in history, Genesis 37-50, good stories, growing up, happy endings, Homer's Odyssey, how to deal with evil, human wickedness, ignorance and unintended evil, ignorance vs wickedness, Joseph and dreams, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph meets his brothers, Judaism’s doctrine of sin, Judaism’s view of sin, judgmentalism and moral judgment, living a good story, long voyage home, mapping one’s personal future, misunderstanding vs wickedness, moral philosophers and evil, moral relativism, mothers and daughters, Odysseus and Penelope, Odysseus's homecoming, placating evil, providence overriding nature, providential element in stories, public success private failure, quest for the grail, real life and mythology, recognition and reunion, recognizing evil, refusal to judge evil, romantic hopelessness, romantic hopes, saving the story, silver tongued enemies, sins of the mothers, stories in the Bible, suffering in nature, the Bible’s dramatic stories, the concealed truth in official stories, the hero’s journey, the invisible stories of women, the Joseph story, the owl of Athena, the problem of evil, the quest, the wise child knows her parents, theodicy, theology and the problem of evil, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, unspoken disapproval, when evil looks good, women friends, women’s cover stories, women’s secrets, young girlhood
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“Evil? What Do You Mean, ‘Evil’?”
“Evil? What Do You Mean, ‘Evil’”? Back when the first edition of A Good Look at Evil came out, I told a Maine neighbor that I had written a book about evil. He was a carpenter who had done a … Continue reading →
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