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A Quarrel That Mattered
It was Jean-Paul Sartre who wrote, “A quarrel does not matter.” He was writing about a friend with whom he had broken. I believe it was Maurice Merleau-Ponty of whose death he had just learned. And, in the same commemorative … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Abigail L Rosenthal’s Spoiling One’s Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt, affective ties, avoiding hope to prevent disappointment, being above moral judgement, bracketing moral questions, broken friendship, combating malice, comfortable with solitude, consequential fork in the road, credible lies, death preventing reconciliation, deep quarrels, destructive lies, destructive lies that are believed, dodging disappointment, envy and defamation, envy and friendship, envy and social influence, existentialists, existentialists vs rationalists, exonerating nazis, feeling ties, finding meaning in history, finding meaning in real life, friends who quarrel, friends who share memories, friendship and disloyalty, friendship betrayed, friendship over professional ambition, friendships between philosophers, friendships with history, getting above bourgeois morality, getting above chronology, getting above history, getting above morality, Hannah Arendt, Hegelian view of history, Hegelians, Heideggerians, Jean-Paul Sartre, jumping the tenses, lifelong friends, loyalty and friendship, meeting in cafes, Merleau-Ponty, moral relativism vs wickedness, Nietzschians, Nihilists, non-conformism, nonjudgementalism vs conscious evil, not asking life to make sense, opposing evil, personal force, persuasive lies, philosopher friends, philosophers of history, philosophic differences, philosophic differences and real life consequences, philosophic differences that become consequential, philosophic irrationalism, philosophic rationale for personal betrayal, Plato is dear but truth is dearer, premature transcendence, pulling meaning out of real situations, quarrel between friends, quarrel unresolved, quarrels that don’t matter, quarrels that matter, refusal to judge, refusing to judge, rights and wrongs and friendship, seeking meaning in real situations, solitude on an arctic island, superficial quarrels, surviving alone in the arctic wilderness, the bad guys who seem to win, the real is not the rational, the real is the rational, the Viking model, transcendence as evasion, transcending moral norms, transcending right and wrong, truth and friendship, truth and philosophic friendship, twin opposites, Viking attitudes, women friends, women philosophers, women philosophers who are friends, women philosophers who were friends
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The Old Year Resolved
Since I had the afternoon free, I thought it would be interesting to reread my journal entries from 12/30/22 to the present evening. How had the past year gone for me personally? Actually, I’d expected to find chasms that had … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century Romanticism, 4000 year old conflict, a balanced life, Abraham's blessing, anti-semitism in America, anti-semitism's global reappearance, anxiety and reality, artists who stay normal, avant-garde artists, Biblical combats for the legacy, Biblical fights over the inheritance, challenges of life, cherem in the Hebrew Bible, competing cultural values, competing for the Biblical blessing, conforming nonconformists, culture and holy writ, Davidic genealogy, diary record, empathy at a distance, evil's reach, extraordinary opinions expressed as ordinary, fashionable radicals, finding one's purpose in life, German Romanticism, German Romantics, going along to get along, Hamas and moral contagion, happiness, Hegel, hysteria mistaken for talent, indulging youthful rebellion, Isaac's descendents, Ishmael and Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, Ishmael Isaac and the blessing, Islam's conflict with Jews, Islam's conflict with Judaism, Islamic triumphalism, Jonah and the Ninevites, joyful serenity, limits of cherem in Biblical Israel, living and dying by ideas, multiculturalism in Biblical Israel, New Year resolution, October 7, opposing evil, opposing middle-class morality, past life motivating current life, past life vision, Paul Gauguin, people are what they believe, people live and die for their Absolute, personal equilibrium, personal growth, personal journal, personal memories, personal story, Peter Paul Rubens, revoked ban on the Amalekites, Sarah and Hagar, self-maintenance, shocks of life, slaying dragons, storm and stress, Sturm und Drang, suicidal nonconformity, talent and hysterics, talent doesn't need abnormality, the Book of Ruth, the oldest hatred, the personal becomes geo-political, the Quran and Jews, the Quran on Jews at end of history, unconventional opinions expressed as if normal, unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict, year-end retrospective
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