Tag Archives: progress
“The Comparative Lightness of Being”
“The Comparative Lightness of Being” Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism at a toxic high. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, history of ideas, ideology, nineteenth-century, ontology, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions, spirituality, the examined life
Tagged "Candid Camera", "far away places with strange sounding names", "Punked", 1950's, anthropology, anti-semitism, community, cultural memory loss, culture critics, daguerreotypes, declinism, dentristy, enemies, extremism, fanatics, fast food joints, foreign, globalism, neighborhood blight, openness, over-development, post modernism, preservation, progress, relativism, showmanship, small businesses
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“Philosophy”
“Philosophy” As a little girl, I would set the lunch table extra slowly so that I could overhear the philosophic conversations between my father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and Léo Bronstein, his closest friend. Understanding not a word, I still liked … Continue reading
Posted in academe, art, culture, dialectic, femininity, history of ideas, philosophy, political, relationships, social conventions, the examined life, the problematic of woman
Tagged Analytic philosophy, Australian materialism, élan vital, Bergson, Camus, communism, Continental philosophy, dialectic, Enlightenment, fascism, Femininity, Freud, George Weigel, Henry M. Rosenthal, human conversation, laws of history, Leo Bronstein, meaningful life, Newtonian science, Nietzsche, philosophy, progress, reality, Social Darwinism, technology, The Great War, Utopianism, WWI
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