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Where Are the Ex-Friends Now?
This is a week when I’ve been thinking about old friends who are, as it happens, ex-friends. Maybe it’s a special category of friendship. I’ve devoted a recent column to David, who was a valued philosophical colleague. Together we shared … Continue reading →
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Tagged a friend’s ghost, a life without distinction, a life without ideality, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, avoiding victimization, betraying expectations, betraying one’s heritage, beyond charisma, beyond charm, coming to manhood, communist party line, debts of honor, disappointing expectations, endangering one’s son, ex-friends, exploiting a friendship, fake spirituality, first love, forgetting one’s debts, funeral notice, gentleman who cheats at cards, honor and dishonor, idealizing and manipulation, intellectual trust, intellectual trustworthiness, life as a true story, mediocre philosophizing, message from beyond, misusing one’s charm, obit notices, old friends, painful self-repair, philosopher’s obit, philosophical adventures, philosophical colleague, philosophical exploration, philosophical fashions, philosophical ghost, playing the victim, politics of experience, pulling rank, reckless driving, reckless endangerment, regretting nothing, repairing one’s life, saving grace from the eternal feminine, selling one’s birthright, social predation, spoiling a life, spoiling one’s story, stern ghost, the eternal feminine, the eternal feminine leads us above, the Nothing nothings, thought experiment, timeline traduced, trading honor for security, trading integrity for security, unfettered thinking, uninspired paintings, utopian illusions, wasting one’s talent, women as victims, women idealized
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The Story
“The crucial thing is the story.” That is what I claim in A Good Look at Evil, my book which holds that the person who would live a good life finds her own story while the evil-doer may be detected … Continue reading →
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Tagged a shattering secret, Abigail Rosenthal's A Good Look At Evil, above all do no harm, blame as manipulation, Carl Jung, chemistry and healing, danger acknowledged, dementia praecox, despair and guilt, detecting evil, determinism and relativism, discerning evil, disrupted story, distinguishing fact from fantasy, evil doers, evil psychologized away, evil-doers in real life, good life, guilt and projection, hippocratic oath, illness and fashion, inauthenticity, inducing guilt, infanticide, Jung as mental hospital assistant, Jung in Zurich, Jung's autobiography, Jung's Memories Dreams Reflections, life-saving advice, losing true love, marrying the wrong man, meaningful storyline, medical bureaucracy, medical ethics, medical power, medicalizing desire, mental healing, mental illness and conformism, moral blackmail, mothers and depression, Oedipal guilt, outliving despair, philosophical fashions, power misused, preventing suicide, psychological cures, psychology and healing, psychology's banalization, psychology's conventionalism, psychology's denial of significance, psychology's mistreatment of women, psychology's narrow horizons, psychology's reductionism, psychology-based cures, real life confused with fiction, real-life story, relativism and denial, repairing one's story, repairing the psyche, repairing the soul, Schizophrenia, self-sabotage, self-spoiled story, social vulnerability, spoiling one’s story, status and vulnerability, stolen story, story and philosophical fashion, story as defining the problem, suicide and secrets, suicide and therapy, suicide as the wrong solution, telling fact from fiction, the bureaucracy of psychology, the worst harm, thwarting evil, true stories, truth and healing, unchivalrous conduct, victimization, victims of evil, warning victims, wives and depression
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As Philosophy Goes …
I hold the view, borrowed from G. W. F. Hegel, the nineteenth-century’s primo philosopher of history, that philosophy plays an oversized role in shaping human events. So do earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, global warming periods, plagues and nasty fights over water … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic martyrdom, academic power struggles, American Philosophical Association, Ann Gary, APA’s Proceedings and Addresses, are people like machines, brainwashing, can machines replace people, can you live inside your philosophy, Catholic convert, cognitive psychology, communicating across difference, competition between underdogs, David Chalmers, Eleonore Stump, Epistemology, facial recognition, fallacy of scattershot condemnation, fashionable ideas, feminist philosophy, feminist quarrels, forced confessions, groupthink, Hegel, human knowledge vs AI, human suffering, human thinking and AI, Hypatia, idealized knowledge, Incommensurable Otherness, intellectual autobiography, Jennifer Nagel, John Dewey Lectures, Jonathan Schaffer, learning models, logical positivists, Mariana Ortega, mechanist materialism as worldview, medieval logic, metaphysics, mind/body problem, moral one-upmanship, opposition to women in philosophy, people compared to machines, philosophical account of ultimacy, philosophical fashions, philosophical friendship, philosophizing about human suffering, philosophy and nonquantifiable experience, philosophy and the future, philosophy and worldviews, philosophy as a profession, philosophy as a truth-seeking discipline, philosophy as cultural influence, philosophy as life-shaping, philosophy lectures, philosophy of history, philosophy transcends the tyranny of fashion, philosophy's political influence, physicalism, physicalism and reductionism, physicalist worldview, Plato's view of knowledge, prediction errors, primary and secondary qualities, primary qualities, pulling moral rank, Reign of Terror, right opinion vs knowledge in Plato, Saint Augustine, Salem witch trials, sexism, the politics of philosophy, theory of everything, thinking machines, Thomas Aquinas, true knowledge vs opinion, Vienna Circle, wisdom as true knowledge, wisdom knowledge vs everyday knowledge, women in philosophy
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For Love of the Argument
For Love of the Argument I first met Bryan Magee when he was visiting Sidney University’s Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy. My then husband was teaching there and I had been granted a nice little niche as “Research Affiliate.” … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Where Theory Meets Chalk Dust Flies", Analytic philosophy, Anglo-American philosophers, Anthony Quinton, Aussie hospitality, Australian Materialist, B. F. Skinner, bad arguments, BBC television series, blackboard of Mitchell Faulk, blackboards of mathematicians, Bryan Magee, Bryan Magee’s Men of Ideas: Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy, bushwalk, civil status of a contradiction, conceptual contests, David M. Armstrong, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, Down Under, early and late Wittgenstein, fish or fowl, fly out of fly bottle, forms of life, good arguments, hatred of human beings, hatred of reason, hospitality blues, innate syntax, inner space, Iris Murdoch, Jessica Wynne, language games, life of argument, life of reason, Linguistic Behaviorism, Mathematician Mitchell Faulk, meaningful sentence, Member of Parliament, metaphysical claims, misology and misanthropy, Noam Chomsky, novelist and philosopher, philosophical dialogues, philosophical fashions, Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein, Philosophical Materialism, philosophical naturalism, philosophical views, photo survey, picture theory of meaning, Plato, Plato's Phaedo, realm of reason, research affiliate, rush to judgement, Sidney University, Socrates, stimulus-response model, talents in collision, Trinity College Oxford, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, woman novelist, woman philosopher, worldly man
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