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Iris Murdoch: Bringing Philosophy to Life
Iris Murdoch: Bringing Philosophy to Life When Jerry and I fly to California for another round of my neuropathy treatments, we each bring something to read en route. Obviously our selections have to be in paperback and short. Since I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged "Freddie lost his cool", A.J. Ayer's Language Truth and Logic, Abigail L. Rosenthal's What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead, acting rightly, airplane reading, arbitrary willing, Ayer's What I Saw When I Was Dead, background assumptions, contest of ideas, conversational implicature, deathbed regrets, eliminating nonsense, experiential layers, free will out of context, freedom of the will, Iris Murdoch's The Severed Head, Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good, it has my name on it, knowledge and moral choice, logical positivism, moral choices, moral knowledge, neuropathy treatments, novels of ideas, Oxford and Cambridge, paperback books, pathbreaking women, philosophic about face, philosophic courage, philosophic novelist, Philosophy: The Journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy, redeeming good deeds, reversing one's paradigm, That Undiscovered Country, the human story, the moral stakes, the obligatory act, the one best choice, the right note, the right stroke, the right word, The Vienna Circle, valuing truth, What do you mean?, women philosophers
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The Gift of the Jews
Unwrapping the Gift of the Jews What’s the gift of the Jews? It’s to live with God chronologically. Is that all? Is that anything? Well, I don’t know if it’s anything, but it’s the reasoning behind the Bible. Keep track … Continue reading
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Tagged "God is my witness", 19th century thought, anti-semitism, anti-Zionism, appeasement, atrocities, Australian Outback, bad people, beheadings, Bible, biblical studies, Charles Dickens, Christians, crucifixions, defamation, Emmanuel Lévinas' "A Religion for Adults" in Difficult Freedom, Emmanuel Lévinas' Difficile Liberté, genocide, good people, good people and bad people, grace, gratitude, Hans Castorp, ISIS, Israel, Joseph Puder, literary criticism, living historically, malice, Malmo, Middle East, Modernity, narrative criticism, non-fiction lives, normality, novelistic lives, novels of ideas, Oliver Twist, pacificism, Peace, Philosophical fiction, Quakers, Roger Sandall's documentary films, salt of the earth, sanatoriums, sanity, sentimentality, StandWithUs, Sweden, Swedish Anti-Semitism, thankfulness, The Covenant, the face of The Covenant, The Face of the Other, the gift, the Other, Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, World War I, Yazidis, Zionism
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