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Is the Just Woman Happier?
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Tagged a life worth living, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "God and the Care for One's Story", academic combat, academic due process, academic reinstatement, accurate empathy, Aristotle's Metaphysics, asking God for help, broken relationships, carcinoginic social circumstance, classroom discipline, collegial friend, collegial normality, consequential choice, consequential vote, covert aggressor, denying the Rashomon Effect, dimming one's moral lights, disloyalty in friendship, empathy, empathy experiment, empathy with enemies, everyday heroism, evil and personal control, evil sees its opportunity, existential questions, faculty union, false compassion, false friends, fight to the finish, forced option, fork in life's road, friend's betrayal, friends who believe defamation, God's silence, good friends in hard times, gossip as a weapon, human desire to know, inner life of former friends, inner life of friends, irreparable breakup, Is the Just man happier? Is the Just woman happier?, job fight, knowing other minds, knowing other minds as parent, knowing other minds as teacher, knowing the mind of another, liberal guilt, life and death struggle, lost friendships, mind body connection, misperceiving the true colors, moral choice, moral cowardice, moral integrity, moral manipulation, moving on to survive, obligation to survive, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Philosophy Department, physical and mental health, Plato's Republic, playing the victim, politics of experience, power of the weak, prayer and meditation, praying for help, pretended misunderstanding, psyching out one's enemies, repaired social wounds, resisting a controller, resisting a manipulator, resisting an aggressor, resisting betrayal, resisting defamation, risking one’s job, seeing the true colors, social cowardice, social dominance, social survival, solitary struggle, solitude as moral struggle's precondition, standing by a friend, staying in the fight, survival instinct, testing situations, the other minds problem, the Rashomon excuse, the right way vs the easy way, the road less traveled, thought experiment, thought-waves of the mind, unhealthy circumstances, unrepaired wounds, veiled perception, victimhood misused, voting one's conscience, words as a weapon
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What a Woman Needs is Philosophy
What a Woman Needs is Philosophy Let’s say there is some connection between how you live and what you think. And let’s say philosophy, which in Greek means love of wisdom, gives you the chance to see how your own … Continue reading →
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Tagged age of innocence, assessing world views, belief systems, biological differences, civilizational layers, cultural locales, culture and belief, deciphering one's culture, deciphering philosophy, evaluating beliefs, getting one's philosophic bearings, History of Philosophy, human culture, influential thinkers, intellectual strategies, learning to survive, life ambitions, life and thinking, life and thought, life problematic, lifemanship, loss of innocence, love of wisdom, male and female strength, paying for college, paying for higher ed, personal and philosophical, personal history, philosophic argument, Philosophy 101, philosophy and personal life, philosophy personified, philosophy's problematic, revising world views, revisiting childhood, self-assessment, self-liberation, social survival, strategic thinking, surviving youth, time travel, understanding people, women and philosophy, women's strategies, Women's Studies, you are what you think
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“The Gang’s All Here”
“The Gang’s All Here” I’ve always liked to be in situations where the whole gang was here. In Hilltop, the summer place of my childhood (memories revived in “Kid Stuff”) we had a small but true-hearted band of playmates to … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the gang's all here", academe, academic firing, academic non-reappointment, academic politics, academic standing, Alfred Dreyfus, allies in combat, American students, analytic clarity, analytic philosophers, anonymity, assistant professor, blogs, book review, calls to arms, change of habitat, chiropractic, City of Lights, classy books, closeness, colleagues, collegial relations, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, controversy, cyberspace, dishonorable discharge, dismissals, distant drums, drawing appreciation, drawing fire, drumming out, editing, editorial changes, emotional nearness, expatriots, fighting the good fight, first rate philosophers, friendship's end, Fulbright scholars, fun, group defeat, group victory, Hemingway, Henry M. Rosenthal, hierarchy, intellectual friendships, intimacy, irreverent youth, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", job fight, Journalism, journalistic training, Jungle Book, junior colleagues, Kipling, lament for friendship, Lionel Trilling, literary friendships, moral sympathy, moving home, Mowgli Stories, nearness, neutral space, outranking, Paris, pecking order, plain style, polarized departments, professional assassination, Public Intellectual, romantic drama, safe distances, say it like it is, social survival, sporting chance, Sturm und Drang, the drumming out of Dreyfus, the God story, time travel, unfrocking of priests, unsettling events, writing, writing process, youth and innocence
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