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When Ideology Replaces Reality | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 4.2
What happens when an ideology offers certainty at the cost of reality?
In Part 4.2 of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin continue their discussion of Confessions of a Young Philosopher and the danger of replacing lived experience with a ready-made system of belief.
Abigail returns to her relationship in Paris, where even love could become formulaic when experience was filtered through ideology.
She and Jerry also revisit Suzanne, whose confidence, social insight, and apparent freedom once seemed to offer Abigail another way of moving through the…
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