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The Absolute is Up for Grabs
Recent changes in what was formerly considered socially okay may be seen in two incidents I couldn’t sidestep. A long-time woman friend figures in the first incident. We’ve been in each other’s lives since the time in Paris when we … Continue reading →
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Tagged agenda driven misunderstanding, ancient religious underlayers, anti-Judaism as a culture import, Asian vs Western religious mindsets, Christian myths about Jews, collective guilt, competition for the covenant, competitive theologies, covenant and who God loves best, culturally embedded distortions, David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, diplomacy in friendship, discerning right from wrong, discerning the moral principle, Doctrine of Deicide, extra-historical spirituality, false naivete, faux pas, flipping moral status, friendship at risk, good guys and bad guys, goodwill confronting malice, historical religions, imperiled friendship, innocence and guilt in history, inverting moral relations, Israel’s right of self-defense, Israel’s right to exist, Jewish timeline, killing Socrates, malice in social settings, moral discernment, Oct 7 and ex-friends, Oct 7 and friendship, pulling moral rank, pulling rank on Jews, pulling theological rank on Jews, religious acculturation, rhetorical questions as insults, Secular Left’s ex-Christians, social insult, social life as war, social navigation, socially acceptable, St. Ambrose and Jewish legal rights, St. Ambrose and the burned synagogue, St. Augustine and Jewish legal rights, status rivalry, the burden of Jewish history, theological rank and social rank, theological social climbing, theology and modern Israel, unconscious cultural baggage, unholy theological doctrines, victimhood competition, victims and victimizers, victims falsely accused, victims treated as victimizers, what is absolute for a culture, woman friend, youthful friendships
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The Romance of Life
There are people who suppose, whenever they learn of an act of unbelievable cruelty, that it must have been done in reaction to some unseen but equally towering grievance. To such people, the forces in the human situation are taken … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", action prompts reaction, acts of cruelty, assessing inward costs, authenticating apologies, blaming the victim, confrontations with malevolence, costs of moral action, costs of moral evaluation, country club antisemitism, cruel to the kind, deliberate evil, denial and displacement, deserving a happy ending, deserving to win, dialectical conversation, disguised insult, evidence of a healthy life, excuses for evil acts, fighting the good fight, forces in the room, forgiveness as social conformity, forgiveness for the sake of appearance, forgiveness so as not to make a scene, heaven on earth, helping the aggressor, heroes and heroic acts, human values expressed in physicalist terms, human values expressed in value-neutral language, human values understood as force and counterforce, insincere atonement, interpersonal harmony, inward costs of moral action, justice without mercy, kind to the cruel, kind to the kind, life themes, long term friendships, merciless to the merciless, mercy without justice, misdirected compassion, misplaced objectivity, moral judgement vs judgmentalism, moral neutrality, moral realities, Newton's Third Law of Motion, objectivity as a cop-out, people analyzed as billiard balls, physicalist analogies, physicalist analogy to moral reality, powers in play, premature forgiveness, pretended apology, pro forma apologies, psychologizing cruelty, psychologizing evil, pulling the rug from under, rationalizing antisocial acts, rationalizing bizarre behavior, recurring themes in life, scars of moral combat, smiles that bare the teeth, smiling insult, social harmony, social insult, social life as war, social miscalculation, solving social mysteries, strategies of denial, taking advantage of good manners, taking advantage of social norms, the pose of objectivity, the romance of life, to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, transvaluation of values, truth-seeking, unwarranted forgiveness, valuing harmony, victim presumed guilty, what was she wearing, when politeness becomes vulnerability, willful harm
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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Argument
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Argument Arguing, in the philosophical sense, doesn’t mean quarreling. The term “argument” designates one or more statements, each capable of being true or false, which present the basis for a final statement called the conclusion. … Continue reading →
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Tagged actual human encounters, ad hominem fallacy, American Philosophical Association, analyzing argument situations, analyzing arguments, angry women, another woman’s marriage, answering with silence, anti-semitism, argument situations, argument stratagems, at a loss, bad argument, basis for knowledge, blindsided, body language, Christina Hoff Sommers, coded anti-Semitism, collegial friendship, collegial taboos, conclusion, contemporary feminism, covert aggression, covert anti-Semitism, criteria, critic of feminism, defenseless, false reasons, female friendships, feminine reasoning, feminist argument, feminist audience, feminist boundaries, feminist philosophers, fielding insults, flinging an epithet, friendship breakup, George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, guilt tripping, how to argue, informal logic, insulting your friend’s wife, intellectual boundaries, intellectual space, intelligent woman, irrelevant reasons, Jerry L. Martin, killing time, knowing better, linguistic consensus, loaded question, Logic, logic lessons, losing an argument, male combatant, male friendship, male quarrels, male/female combatants, man to man combat, masculine reasoning, my friend’s husband, neuropathy treatments, offending a wife, old friends, passive-aggressive insults, premise, preserving friendship, preserving social protocol, propositions, proving manhood, real life argument, real life argument context, reasoning, reasons to believe, responding to insults, self-respect, shared objectives, smiling insult, social insult, social self-respect, sound argument, speechless, statements, supporting an argument, term of art, textbook argument, the art of argument, theory of argument, unstated issues, valid argument, verbal counter-attack, virgin territory, women friends
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