Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast

I would like this podcast to start a conversation with women of all ages, convictions and styles of life – wherever situated on the gamut of experience. In principle, there is no bar to men joining in, since how one defines women has a lot to do with what it means to be a man. But it is women I invite to pull up a chair at this virtual café table and put their questions and views into the conversation. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of A Good Look at Evil, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, now appearing in an expanded second edition and as audiobooks. Dr. Rosenthal writes a weekly column for “Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column,” (www.dearabbie-nonadvice.com) where she explores the situation of women. She thinks women’s lives are highly interesting. She’s the editor of The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes’s Secret; Spinoza’s Way by her father, Henry M. Rosenthal. She’s written numerous articles that can be accessed at Academia.edu .

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Episoder(269)

Guilt

If anyone wants to control us, whether we’re women or men, short of violence the quickest way to get hold of us is by the guilt we carry. If we don’t want to fall prey to the controllers, we must do s...

11 Mar 20229min

Playfulness

Playfulness is a mode of living that always seemed to me stupendously desirable – almost the acme of experience! But if we want to know what it is, that’s rather hard to pin down.

9 Mar 20226min

Coincidence?

Clearly, "when you’re hot, you’re hot and when you’re not, you’re not", but coincidences don’t always foster a good outcome or discourage a bad one.

2 Mar 20228min

Courage

Courage, Plato said, is knowing what ought to scare you, and what ought not to.

25 Feb 20227min

Far Memory

Let’s suppose for a moment that we live many lives, as different personalities in a variety of circumstances. The TV documentaries on reincarnation, and the past life regressions available online, all...

23 Feb 20229min

Yenta

I’ll venture a definition: a busybody whose interest and advice is not really well-intentioned, though it purports to be.

18 Feb 20227min

Fun

Whenever I really had fun, I hadn’t sought it and never called it that. What times am I thinking of?

16 Feb 20227min

Ambiguity

If the current era were to gain a label, it might be called “The Age of Ambiguity.” Whether in self-praise or regret, there is wide agreement that nothing is clearly X or not-X. Rather, everything is...

11 Feb 20228min