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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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