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Disaggregation
Disaggregation Disaggregation! What a title! Masses of people will be pushing in to hear what I have to say about that one! It’s the polysyllabic term for what I need to do: separate out and deal with the present pileup … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", answering questions, author interviews, avoiding platitudes, baring one's soul, being overwhelmed, Biblical covenant, chronological order, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, counting on friends, crowd-pleasing, cultural way stations, disaggregation, essentially Jewish, existentialist, fashions in self-knowledge, first discovered last explained, first things first, forthcoming book, Freudian, friend as fellow trapeze artist, friend of my time, friend of this place, frontier of life, genre of confession, gnostic, God and Israel, having a lot to say, helping women today, hour of retreat, I can't do this, intellectual fashions, knowing what you're talking about, landing safely, large canvas, life challenges, life crises, losing privacy, Marxist, memory pathway, nihilist, no rest for the weary, normal life, philosophic rationalism, physicalist-reductionist, polysyllabic words, proofreading, saying something new, sharing life's perils, sheltered thought, spiritual pilgrimage, truthful atmosphere, woman as pilgrim, woman interviewer
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Nibbles from the Tree of Knowledge
Nibbles from the Tree of Knowledge On my night table for last read of the evening is a book with the title, Forbidden Knowledge. It concerns a topic that I’d never considered as such: whether there are, or ought … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the moderns", absurdist philosophies, Adam and Eve, Aristotle, Aristotle's Metaphysics, bedtime reading, book of Genesis, broken places, classical civilization, cognitive powers, corrupt intelligence, curiosity, curiosity and its dangers, cynicism, dialectic and its dangers, divine prohibition, fundamental values, getting help in life, greatness of philosophy, Greco-Roman source, Hegel, hollowness of soul, Judeo-Christian Civilization, knowing too much, logos of the cosmos, moral dangers, noble truth, original sin, philosophic journey, philosophic rationalism, philosophy and culture, philosophy and zeitgeist, philosophy's goal, philosophy’s influence, Prometheus, Prometheus punished, rational animal, Roger Shattuck’s Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, scientism, secular science, Socrates, Socratic ignorance, Spinoza, stealing fire, the ancients, The Enlightenment, The Garden of Eden, the great rationalists, the great systems, the hard problems, the meaning of life, the medievals, theology of The Fall, theory of everything, tree of knowledge, tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Western Civilization, world historical hero
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