Men Worth Remembering
About the first insight: my father had always been quite mysterious to me. I’d gone into philosophy partly to try and understand him. Now at last, it seems, I get what he was . . . Abigail L. Rosent...
29 Juni 202312min
Selling Yourself
What I fear is taking the real, unmasked me into a wider arena – or trying to. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is ...
22 Juni 20238min
The Unconscious
.It’s Da King. Not Elvis. The Unconscious is the biggest thing around. Everything – everything you can mention – is under its iron heel. . . Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, ...
15 Juni 202313min
Heroes and Patriots
When I heard that the American ambassador to Libya had been killed in a surprise attack on an U.S. embassy outpost in Benghazi, I felt it very much, as a wound on the body of our country. We are not c...
8 Juni 202311min
Chivalry
I cannot advise anyone as to whose election to the presidency of the United States would be worse for the future of the republic. About that, I have no special expertise. Personally, my concern is wit...
1 Juni 202311min
The Moral Drama of the World
When I focus my mind on the new anti-semitism, I see only evil, sui generis, immemorial, incurable as a human phenomenon and perennially prepared to spring its ambush. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Profes...
25 Maj 20238min
When Animals Talk Back
Well, first of all, I’m a pretty literal girl. I never take things metaphorically or symbolically if there’s a literal way to take them. I try not to regard anything as mysterious if there’s a way to ...
18 Maj 20239min
The Completed ‘Confessions of a Young Philosopher'
I finished a life work. I mean, finished it to my satisfaction. It’s done – as I always hoped it could be. . . . Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The Cit...
11 Maj 20237min
