Home Away From Home
What’s this got to do with “home”? Is “home” a place? Is it the earthly Jerusalem? Or is it a heavenly Jerusalem, more like a state of mind? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, ...
2 Nov 202211min
Ain't I a Person?
What’s a person? Am I a person? All the time? Is God? What’s going on when people say yes or no to questions like that? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of ...
28 Okt 20229min
Meta-Narratives
There is a French post-modern philosopher who writes, “I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” By that is meant, there is no large story – no history of humanity as such – into whic...
26 Okt 202212min
Unhappiness
If you’re anything like me, unhappiness is doled out in measures of vulnerability. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Sh...
21 Okt 202210min
Self-Acceptance
This is the season of deck-swabbing and deck-clearing, if you are Jewish. I tend to say that, at best, I am “Jewish in the head.” By that I mean: having tried a wide range of belief systems, I came at...
19 Okt 202210min
Being Brave
Nobody wants to think of herself as a whining, sniveling, cowering coward. At the same time, one of the advantages of the female sex is that (forgive me, sisterhood!) we are not expected to wear such ...
14 Okt 20229min
Mystical Merging
In my teen years, I used often to thumb through a book my parents owned — a collection of one-page essays about holy persons, East and West, who had managed to attain oneness with God. I forget the ...
12 Okt 202212min
Political Correctness and Sex Appeal
First, about this Political Correctness mania. It is starting to act like a cumulonimbus cloud, soaked in its own heavy humidity, making us land dwellers underneath feel sluggish and anxiety-ridden. ....
7 Okt 202211min
