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Thoughts About and Beyond Boundaries
I’ve just finished reading consecutively a book that previously, from time to time over the years, I’ve only browsed through. The very title, The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The Worldview of Williams James, might scare off any readers … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century philosophy, academic feminism, after death communications, alternate healers, alternative medicine, American philosopher, background assumptions in feminism, background assumptions in science, background assumptions in scientific investigation, beyond boundaries, beyond limits, competitve struggle as masculine, conventional cancer treatment, cooperation as feminine, cooperation in evolution, cooperation in population dynamics, creativity and self-doubt, creativity linked to neurosis, creativity vs reductionism, cultural and personal dichotomies, cultural boundaries of experience, cultural history and personal history, current philosophic fashions, Darwin and Freud in culture, Darwinian determinism, different life problematics, ecology, false gods, Freudian determinism, genetics, Henry James, life stories, limitations as opportunities, limits of alternative medicine, limits of modern psychology, Making Sense of My Life: A Memoir by Evelyn Fox Keller, medical humiliation Catholic Jewish and Protestant, merits of William James, metaphoric interpretations of evolution, neurotic affectations, novelistic characters, novelistic life stories, novelistic stories, open-mindedness, population dynamics, psychic communications, psychic healers, reductionism of Darwin, reductionism of Freud, reductionist psychologies, resource scarcity, science and epistemology, search and destroy cancer treatments, search for truth, self-determination undermined, self-trust, self-trust undermined, sociology of medicine, The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The Worldview of Williams James by Jane Roberts, three sectarian branches of medical humiliation, William James, William James from the afterlife
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What Is Truth?
The question, famously put to Jesus by Pontius Pilate, was prompted by Jesus’ self-report that he had come to bear witness to the truth. Without capitalizing “Truth,” so that it acquires other-worldly sound-and-light effects – isn’t bearing witness to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, acculturation and maturation, aesthetic theory, bearing witness, beyond good and evil, celebration of the novel, characters in novels, children’s adaptation to grownups, continental know-it-all, cultural history, culture and meaning, culture as influence on purpose, despair as affectation, destroying the culture, discerning life purpose, discerning one’s purpose, evil defined, evildoers and innocent purposes, evildoers attacking ordinary purpose, fashionable despair, feminine self-respect, fiction and nonfiction, good and evil, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel, initial purposes, intellectual influence, Jesus, ladies don’t believe this creep, libertine Gnosticism, life as a journey, life as a pilgrimage, life as a quest, literary criticism, literary history, mapping and purpose, moral anomie, moral flatness, mutual influence in society, nineteenth-century novels, novelistic life stories, novels and real-life, Pontius Pilate, preferred purposes, pretense of amorality, revising purposes, seducer’s line, seducing the reader, self-definition, self-discovery, self-education, self-respect, stories true and false, story as putting purpose to the test, storylines, subjectivity mischaracterized, technique of seduction, testing purposes, the nature of evil, the novel, trials and errors, true stories, truth and falsehood, truth and postmodernism, truth vs fiction, undermining the culture, What is truth?, what you see is what you get
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