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Ave Atque Vale (Hail and Farewell)
The other day I scanned the internet for news of ex-friends who’d stayed significant in my memory. “We quarreled,” as French philosopher Sartre said about one former friend, the philosopher Merleau-Ponty, “a quarrel does not matter. It’s just one more … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic colleagues, academic dramas of character, academic politics, aristocratic decadence, aristocrats and plebeians, Augustine's boyhood theft, ave atque vale, bad debt, belated farewell, code of conduct, code of honor, concepts of logic, creative logician, decadence, dramas of character, drunk driving, ex-friend, fateful choice, filicide, former friends, French philosophers, friends beyond death, friends beyond the grave, friends’ lives, hail and farewell, honorable losers, labyrinth of man-woman relations, legal redress, loan between friends, logic tutor, love of wisdom, man/woman labyrinth, Merleau-Ponty, moral candor, Moral crisis, moral discernment, moral price of job security, moral price of tenure, moral risk, moral temptation, outward repentance, paying one’s dues, philosopher ex-friend, philosophical colleagues, philosophical conversation, philosophical curiosity, playing with good and evil, politics of experience, pompous philosopher, pompous wordiness, potential dishonesty, prep school and manhood, quarrels of friends, reformed character, reformed church-goer, reformed rake, remembered friends, risking one’s honor, Sartre, selling out, selling your vote, sense of honor, significant friends, symbols and words, toying with wrongdoing, trained emotional suppression, training to suppress feelings, unrepaid loan, upright citizen
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Frustrations and Epiphanies
Frustrations and Epiphanies Our quiet town, with its Victorian houses (many of them kept in good repair by the law firms that have taken them over), its charming signs of civic care and pride, has for some years also been … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, Biblical God, chivalry, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, Industrial Revolution, institutional power, Jews, journalism, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, master, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, mortality, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, 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, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged AFSC, Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel, American Friends Service Committee, anti-Judaism, Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe’s “When Did the Quakers Stop Being Friends?” in The Tower December 2013, befriending enemies, Bullying, charm, Christians in Middle East, civilians in Syria, confidentiality, conflict resolution, contagious ill will, David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, defamation, dialogue, dinner invitations, ex-terrorist, foreign aid misuse, good will, harassment of Jewish students, hate crimes, incitement, inner turn, inter-group dialogue, intimidation of Jewish students and faculty, Israel, Israel Consul, Israel outnumbered, Jewish best friends, Jewish flight, Jewish survival, Jews in England, Jews in France, Joseph Puder’s “Iran’s Ugly Human Rights Record Must Be Addressed in StandWithUs Weekly Middle East Report 7/28/2017, judgments of fact, Kasim Hafeez, moral risk, neighborly relations, nonjudgmentalism, oldest hatred, one-sided views, Palestinian Authority, peace and love, Peace Center, persecution of Bahai, Persecution of Laogai, public debate, relativism, scapegoat, Second Temple, self-deception, self-righteousness, social anti-semitism, spiritual turning, street demonstrations, Students for Justice in Palestine, terrorist, threats to Israel, toxic claims, U.S. Senator, value judgments, vandalism, victims of hate crimes, vigils, violence, Werner Cohen's “The Quakers on Israel and China” in “Werner’s Opinions” 3/13/13, Western Wall, worldly experience, Yazidi
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