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Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place
Putting Puzzle Pieces in Place Today I finished a good part of what I had to do to prepare the first book I ever wrote, A Good Look at Evil, to reappear in the world. This meant writing a new … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic journals, academic readership, banality of evil, dishonest views, dramatic lives, Eichmann in Jerusalem, evidence for God, evidence for Providence, Evil, evil as counter-story, fashionable views, Hannah Arendt, life as puzzle, Michelangelo’s Kneeling Boy, narrative theory, negative story, nonfiction narrative, nonfiction plotlines, novelistic lives, philosophic articles, philosophic publication, providence, Public Intellectual, puzzle pieces, reprint, revisions, specialized readership, true stories, willful evil
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“The Big Picture”
“The Big Picture” Why do we need philosophy? There are entire philosophic orientations, Wittgenstein’s is one, holding that philosophy as traditionally practiced is something to be cured of, and that the only thing philosophy can usefully do is to cure … Continue reading →
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