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Admiration
Admiration In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. Despite W. H. Auden, and his poem, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, we live in a time whose typical mood is suspicion. It’s almost the … Continue reading →
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Tagged accommodation, Adam Kirsch, admiration, ambiguous, appreciation, avoiding ill will, bad checks, best friends, brothers and sisters, bungalow colony, child/parent duties, civil disobedience, Classical philosophy, college friends, concerts, counterfeit compensation, creditors, cutting a figure, deadbeat sibling, deadbeats, Diana Trilling, disambiguous, emotional debts, emotional unfairness, enabling, epistolary relationships, fairness in family, family circle, family relations, family unfairness, filial obligations, filial piety, financial debts, friendship breakup, graduate school, Henry M. Rosenthal, high culture, intellectual influence, intellectuals’ correspondence, irate creditors, legal tender, Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, Lionel Trilling, literary critic, looking like an intellectual, looking the part, love and equality, making your mark, male friendship, martyr complex, misguided fairness, mom loves you best, money, money and love, money and truth, moral imperative, New York intellectuals, only child, opinion shaping, parental favor, Paul Ricoeur, Plato, Plato’s Crito, praise, Public Intellectual, quarreling over inheritance, recitals, reprove your brother, reprove your sister, reproving the wrongdoer, righting wrongs, self-content, shirked obligations, sibling rivalry, Socrates, sour grapes, Stanley Rosen, sticking to the truth, suspicion, symbols and metaphors, the 1930’s, the Great Depression, the hermeneutics of suspicion, the rip-off, unfairness in family, unpaid debts, W. H. Auden, W.H. Auden's In Memory of W B Yeats, Watchung Mountains of New Jersey
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Microaggression: Woman on Woman
Microaggression: Woman on Woman As anyone knows who knows me, I detest the very word “microaggression.” To me, it’s part of a newly weaponized jargon that allows any accuser to put on the mantle of victimhood and leave the accused … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, action, alienation, anthropology, art of living, autonomy, beauty, bureaucracy, childhood, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, martyrdom, master, memoir, memory, mind control, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, mortality, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, poetry, political, politics of ideas, power, presence, promissory notes, psychology, public facade, reductionism, relationships, roles, romance, scientism, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, time, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged abuse of power, accupuncture, benign protest, denial, doctor/patient relations, domination, erotic self-defense, feminine dignity, getting a grip, getting a handle, indignity, instinctive defenses, interpersonal dynamics, jargon, medical aggression, medical considerateness, medical intervention, medical power dynamic, microaggression, moral obligation, new treatment, patient dignity, patient embarrassment, patient powerlessness, patient self-defense, physical therapy, preventing abuse, professional abuse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflexive aggression, resignation, risks of new treatment, robust common sense, search for cures, social abuse, social aggression, social awkwardness, social clues, social evidence, social life, social life as war, stopping abuse, suspicion, thin skin, unresigned, useless remedies, victimhood, vulnerability, walking handicap, weaponized words
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Are the Stories We Live True?
Are the Stories We Live True? Good people try to live the sorts of stories that will solve the problems of their lives as reasonably and realistically as they can. Meanwhile, evil people aim to mess up good people’s stories. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", abstraction, abuse of power, adultery, Anglophone philosophers, authority figure, Bernard Harrison's What Is Fiction For: Literary Humanism Restored, Bertrand Russell, chronology, Continental philosophers, creative living, credence, credulity, deconstruction, deconstructionism, delusions, early Wittgenstein, empiricism, Evil, evil people, false consciousness, fantasy, Ferdinand de Saussure, fictional stories, French philosophers, Freudian unconscious, Gilles Deleuze, giving credit, good people, goodness, graduate student, incredulity, Jacques Derrida, manipulativeness, marital cheating, metaphysics, Michel Foucault, narrative, narrative theory, narrative view, narrativity, novels, Ontology, outside the text, philosophical analysis, plot line, scholarly attribution, seductive ploy, self-mistrust, self-trust, sense data, skepticism, social embarrasment, Steven G. Smith's Full History: On The Meaningfulness of Shared Action, suppressed stories, suspicion, the marginal, the powerful, theory, theory of being, true stories, ultimate reality, verbal vertigo, wish fulfillment
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