Tag Archives: overcoming adversity

Understanding Evil

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Abigail

The French say, to understand all is to forgive all – but, where evil is concerned, forgiving all would be a bad idea. I have written a whole book on the topic, called (accurately enough) A Good Look at Evil. … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, American Politics, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, bigotry, book reviews, books, bureaucracy, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Female Power, Femininity, Feminism, Films, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Hegel, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, ID, idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Journalism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, master/slave relation, Memoir, memory, Messianic Age, Mind Control, Modern Women, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Mortality, motherhood, Mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, novels, Ontology, Oppression, pacifism, Past and Future, Peace, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Political Movements, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Racism, radicalism, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, Romanticism, science, scientism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, Sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, terrorism, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, antinomian utopians, avoiding victimization, charisma of the wicked, Christianity and sin, classifying evil, conditions for evil, coping with evil, criteria for evil, dangerous individuals, dealing with evil, deceived by bad guys, defining evil as the absence of good, defining evil psychologically, deliberate evil, discerning the presence of wickedness, empathy with evil, Evil, evil and personal responsibility, evil and the vulnerable, evil as a force, evil as contagious, evil’s disguises, evil’s external conditions, evil’s influence, evil’s ingenious disguises, evil’s reductionist explanations, evil’s religious disguises, fashionable misunderstandings, fear of evil, inherent nature of evil, inherent power of wickedness, Judaism and sin, knowing right from wrong, knowing when not to forgive, malign influence, masquerading as religious, moral danger, nature vs nurture, overcoming adversity, overeducated misunderstandings, philosophical concept of evil, philosophy’s treatment of evil, power of the corrupt to corrupt, profaning what is sacred, recognizing evil, reductionist explanations of evil, religious pretense and wickedness, resisting external conditions for evil, seeing the wolf before he sees you, strategies of evil, the habit doesn’t make the monk, the inner life of the wicked, the spell of evil, to understand is to forgive, underprivilege and evil, victimized by evil, villains in novels, what is evil | Leave a comment

“Work and Life”

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Abigail

“Work and Life” The writer Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have said, about the aim of life, that it’s “to last and get your work done.” Well, he didn’t exactly do either. He did not last, for he killed himself, … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Autonomy, Chivalry, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Films, Freedom, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, History, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Institutional Power, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, master, Memoir, Mind Control, Modernism, Mysticism, non-violence, Ontology, Peace, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Seduction, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, slave, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged abstraction in art, aim of life, Aladdin's lamp, allegory, artistic sterility, British India, censorship, Charlie Rose, courage, death and art, death of art, decoding writing, deconstructionism, encoded writing, Enlightenment, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, fantasy, fisherman, genies, great American novel, groundedness, heresy, Islamic mindset, Islamic Orthodoxy, Islamic sensibility, jinn, Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing, liberal Muslims, magic, magical beings, magical realism, meaning of art, meaning of life, Modernity, Nobel Prize, novels, One Thousand and One Nights, overcoming adversity, post modernism, real life, realism, Romanticism, Sahih Al-Bukhari's The Translation of the Meanings of Ahadith Vol. 1-9 tr. by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, scholarship, sterility, T.V author interview, the human spirit, ungroundedness | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: overcoming adversity

Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column

Recent Posts