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Are the Stories We Live True?
Are the Stories We Live True? Good people try to live the sorts of stories that will solve the problems of their lives as reasonably and realistically as they can. Meanwhile, evil people aim to mess up good people’s stories. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", abstraction, abuse of power, adultery, Anglophone philosophers, authority figure, Bernard Harrison's What Is Fiction For: Literary Humanism Restored, Bertrand Russell, chronology, Continental philosophers, creative living, credence, credulity, deconstruction, deconstructionism, delusions, early Wittgenstein, empiricism, Evil, evil people, false consciousness, fantasy, Ferdinand de Saussure, fictional stories, French philosophers, Freudian unconscious, Gilles Deleuze, giving credit, good people, goodness, graduate student, incredulity, Jacques Derrida, manipulativeness, marital cheating, metaphysics, Michel Foucault, narrative, narrative theory, narrative view, narrativity, novels, Ontology, outside the text, philosophical analysis, plot line, scholarly attribution, seductive ploy, self-mistrust, self-trust, sense data, skepticism, social embarrasment, Steven G. Smith's Full History: On The Meaningfulness of Shared Action, suppressed stories, suspicion, the marginal, the powerful, theory, theory of being, true stories, ultimate reality, verbal vertigo, wish fulfillment
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Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place
Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place Today I finished a good part of what I had to do to prepare the first book I ever wrote, A Good Look at Evil, to reappear in the world. This meant writing a new … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic journals, academic readership, banality of evil, dishonest views, dramatic lives, Eichmann in Jerusalem, evidence for God, evidence for Providence, Evil, evil as counter-story, fashionable views, Hannah Arendt, life as puzzle, Michelangelo’s Kneeling Boy, narrative theory, negative story, nonfiction narrative, nonfiction plotlines, novelistic lives, philosophic articles, philosophic publication, providence, Public Intellectual, puzzle pieces, reprint, revisions, specialized readership, true stories, willful evil
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Great Scott! A Publisher?
Great Scott! A Publisher? My book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, was completed not long ago and since then I’ve turned to the much less inviting project of finding a publisher for it. Writing it was a very interesting, private … Continue reading →
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