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Truth and truths
Truth and truths It was early in my philosophy major at Barnard College when a professor returned a paper of mine, to which he had given a less than stellar grade, with the comment, “By now you should know better … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anglophone philosophers, atomic facts, atomic propositions, Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, clarification, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, Divine Truth, early Wittgenstein, Epistemology, Gandhi, Gandhi’s Experiments with Truth, God is Truth, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor testimonies, honesty, ideal certainties, integrity, kinds of truth, language and reality, lying, Nazi official, ordinary experience, personal integrity, philosopher’s biography, philosophic dialogue, philosophic friendship, philosophy major, postulated entities, pragmatism, protestant pastor v Nazi, Ray Monk’s Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, realm of ideas, refuting instance, reliabilism, scientific truth, self-trust, the test of experience, the what and the who, truth, truth as cash-value, truth as what works, truths, Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, world of truth, Young India
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Therapy from the Jews
Therapy from the Jews Have the Jews anything to offer the world today in their capacity as Jews? The remarkable plasticity and resilience of anti-semitism doesn’t answer my question about being a Jew: what the hell good is it? Let’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alber Camus, anti-semitism, assimilation, authorship by committee, being modern. modernity, Bibical record, Bible, Bible as metaphor, Brooklyn College, chronological experience, conventional conduct, covenant, cultural baggage, dialectical life, documentary hypothesis, dogmatism, erasing personhood, escapism, ethnic identity, false transcendence, God as energy, God as Person, God of history, higher criticism, History, human wholeness, human/divine relations, intersectionality, Jewish mind-set, Jewish orthodoxy, Jewish practices, linear thinking, literary reading of Bible, living one’s time, mechanical conformity, merger with the Absolute, Mysticism, observant Jews, Oral Law, Orthodox students, personal God, personhood, pragmatism, pretentiousness, principle of charity miracles, problem-solving, providential interventions, realm of action, religious identity, religious pretense, role of chronology, saintliness, scientism, self-correction, signing on to the covenant, Sinaitic covenant, supersessionism, Talmud, the Biblical record, The Examined Life, The Jewish Review of Books, Thomas Cahill’s The Gift of the Jews & How the Irish Saved Civilization, thought experiment, universality, Utopianism, world without Jews
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Should the Dead Know Their Place?
Should the Dead Know Their Place? What are the dead up to? Are they just nonexistent? Many philosophers believe that and most would rather be annihilated than wrong. Are they sleeping? After the great bloodbath of the American Civil War, … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Hamilton" the musical, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead", afterlife communication, American Civil War, Applied Ethics, Authenticity, Bertrand Russell, citing philosophers, college jocks, counterproductive therapy, death as sleep, defamation, duties to the dead, Existential Analysis, Founding Fathers, Francis Miles Finch's "The Blue and the Gray”, ghost stories, ghosts, good writing, gossip, Hamilton Awareness Society, Henry James, Jane Robert's The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher: the World View of William James, lean prose, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Ludwig Binswanger, mediums, mediumship, naturalism, no way out, novelists, philosophical stylists, political rivals, posterity, power of rumor, pragmatism, psychologial conventions, purple prose, reductionist explanation, reputation, restoring reputation, ruined reputation, scholarly citation, scholarly protocol, silencing, skepticism, spiritual good manners, spiritualism, Stephen F. Knott's Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, stereotyping, suicide, the afterlife, the dead, the last word, the paranormal, therapy, Thomas Jefferson, unacademic methods, William James
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