Close Friends
This is one I keep revisiting. But friendship is one of life’s prime supports – almost the axis on which the whole thing turns – so one post hardly exhausts the subject. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Profe...
5 Okt 202210min
How to Pick Your Fights
I pay great mind to words and the power of words. Therefore I have to care when words believed by the speaker to be true are spoken in honesty and then dishonestly stigmatized with a view to pushing t...
30 Sep 202214min
Wordliness
My father, the late Henry M. Rosenthal, was the antithesis of a worldly man. “He never made a useful friend,” as someone said who was well placed to know. Speaking at his memorial service, a college c...
28 Sep 202211min
The Quakers: Another Round
We met again with the small group of Quakers that’s been holding anti-Israel placards in the town square once a week all year. . . Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn Co...
23 Sep 202210min
Confessions of a Young Philosopher
My book tells the story of a young woman philosopher looking for truth and prepared to pay in the coin of her future for what is found or lost. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosop...
21 Sep 202210min
Cynicism
Why do I think cynicism a state of mind to be feared? Especially since it’s pretty widespread and most people think it’s fairly normal. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Bro...
14 Sep 20229min
The Delicacy of Women
For Sartre, we have here an object lesson in “bad faith,” mauvaise foi. What would good faith look like? Women all over the world wanted to know. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philos...
9 Sep 20229min
Being Torn Apart — as a Method
Rene Descartes, the reputed “founder of modern philosophy,” held that the most important thing in life and thought – the thing without which nothing of significance can happen – is to have a method. ...
7 Sep 202210min
