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The Eternal Feminine
The Eternal Feminine Many years ago – it was our last evening in Paris – the first boy I loved told me that I had become, for him, “the eternal feminine.” Later I learned that his reference to Goethe’s … Continue reading →
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Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist It’s a German word for the “spirit of the times.” The historian Norman Stone gives an example of a moment when the Zeitgeist changed: “Dangerfield had it right when he observed how, in the cartoons of Punch, there was … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1912, 1914, American philosopher, Anatomy as destiny, anthropologists, Art curators, Art forgery, Believing a lie, Cartoons in Punch, Children and truth, class warfare, contradictions, cultural relativism, Deceiving children, Detecting forged antiquities, Detecting lies, Detecting truth, determinism, dialectic, domination, Drunken father, Economic determinism, Epistemology, Etruscan Warrior, free will, Gender and choice, Hardwired traits, Having options, In step with the times, Inconsistencies, Institutional violence, Irrationalism, Jane Robert's The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher: the World View of William James, Living fashionably, Logic, Logos, Masks of power, Metropolitan Museum, Nietzsche, Norman Stone’s Europe Transformed: 1878-1919, Oppression, Oppressors and oppressed, Other-directed, Outliving one’s time, Posthumous recognition, Presentism, relativism, Righteous anger, search for truth, Signs of the times, social isolation, social retreat, Socratic method, Solitary mountain retreat, Spirit of the times, subjective relativism, the World, Truth and lies, Uninhabited island, universal truth, Victorian world, Well-meaning cops, William James, Zeitgeist
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