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The Right Way to Act
The Right Way to Act An essay of mine with that title, excerpted from my Good Look at Evil, is now posted on academia.edu. It’s on the question of how to conduct oneself during one’s Holocaust. The title is meant … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic colleagues, Argumentum ad baculum, armchair moralizing, author meets reader, behaviorism, being ready for a book, blaming the victim, book smart v street smart, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College faculty, Brooklyn College students, character test, children of survivors, choices of duties, complex people, conditioning as excuse, confronting malice, cruelty as a motive, exonerating the guilty, extenuating circumstances, faculty reception, God as a person, hasidic tales, Hasidism, historian's verification, Holocaust, Holocaust atrocities, Holocaust commemorator, Holocaust studies, Holocaust survivor interviews, Holocaust survivors, human devotion, interviewing sources, Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters", moral confusion, moral evasion, naturalism, oversensitivity, personal love, Personal loyalty, primary sources, pulling moral rank, social conditioning, spiritual endurance, the hasidic world, the human spirit, the Jewish spirit, the teaching is in the tale, the triumph of the human spirit, The World of Truth, Yaffa Eliach's Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust
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Should the Dead Know Their Place?
Should the Dead Know Their Place? What are the dead up to? Are they just nonexistent? Many philosophers believe that and most would rather be annihilated than wrong. Are they sleeping? After the great bloodbath of the American Civil War, … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Hamilton" the musical, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead", afterlife communication, American Civil War, Applied Ethics, Authenticity, Bertrand Russell, citing philosophers, college jocks, counterproductive therapy, death as sleep, defamation, duties to the dead, Existential Analysis, Founding Fathers, Francis Miles Finch's "The Blue and the Gray”, ghost stories, ghosts, good writing, gossip, Hamilton Awareness Society, Henry James, Jane Robert's The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher: the World View of William James, lean prose, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Ludwig Binswanger, mediums, mediumship, naturalism, no way out, novelists, philosophical stylists, political rivals, posterity, power of rumor, pragmatism, psychologial conventions, purple prose, reductionist explanation, reputation, restoring reputation, ruined reputation, scholarly citation, scholarly protocol, silencing, skepticism, spiritual good manners, spiritualism, Stephen F. Knott's Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, stereotyping, suicide, the afterlife, the dead, the last word, the paranormal, therapy, Thomas Jefferson, unacademic methods, William James
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“The Big Picture”
“The Big Picture” Why do we need philosophy? There are entire philosophic orientations, Wittgenstein’s is one, holding that philosophy as traditionally practiced is something to be cured of, and that the only thing philosophy can usefully do is to cure … Continue reading →
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Tagged "man will be a god to man", "the best lack all conviction", "the moderns", "the worst are full of passionate intensity", administrators, alienation, automobile manufacturers, autonomous man, autonomous woman, bankers, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Tours, biblical world view, botanists, chefs, church authority, Church Fathers, Classical world view, common experience, communism, conscience, cosmology, cultural self-condemnation, cultural self-reproach, disaffiliates, disvalued Jews, dualism, expertise, experts, facism, fly in fly bottle, free will, Galileo, Galileo's telescope, Gates of Vienna, geologists, globalization, grammarians, Greco-Roman world view, Hebrew Scripture, house painters, ice cream from the hardware store, identity theory, intelligent will, Islamism, Israelite world view, Jihad, language of specialists, lawyers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Materialism, metaphysics, micro-particle physicists, mind as brain, mind/body, Modernity, naturalism, newscasters, novelistic lives, Ontology, ordinary language, Patristic writings, personal identity, personal life, philosophic cure, philosophic therapy, philosophical puzzles, philosophy, photographers, physicalism, poets, political Islam, priests, puzzle pieces, qualia, quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, reductionism, religion, religious authority, scientism, secularlism, self-assertion, sins of the West, social life, specialists, supervenience, The Bible, the mind/body problem, the will, the will to power, W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming", Western Civilization, Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations, Wittgensteinians
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“Theism, Philosophy and Me”
“Theism, Philosophy and Me” All weekend, recovering from a cold and feeling more dead than alive, I’ve been giving myself a crash course in philosophical theism. Theism is the belief in a personal God, who cares about you and me, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambassador Morganthau's Story by Henry Morganthau, analytic philosophers, Anglo-American Philosophy, argument, Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, Armenian massacres, Atheism, causal chain, Christian theism, Continental philosophy, detective stories, dialogue, Epistemology, existence of God, experience of the Divine, falsifiable, genocide, human evil, naturalism, Perceiving God by William P. Alston, personal God, personal narrative, Phenomenology, Phenomenology of religious experience, physicalism, politics of ideas, prayer, proof, sceptics, scientific theories, sense data, sense perception, sincerity and authenticity, The Epistemology of Religious Experience by Keith E. Yandell, theism, theists v atheists, tough-minded philosophers, Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, World War I
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