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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…
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Female Freedom and the Reality of Vulnerability | Women Reading Confessions (2)
What does it really mean for a woman to be free? And how can we understand consent when we don't yet know what we're consenting to? In this episode of Women…
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Romance Before a Woman Knows the Stakes | Women Reading Confessions (1)
Abigail arrives in Paris at a point in a young romantic woman’s life when love comes before experience. In the new podcast series Women Reading Confessions…
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The Courage to Live in Reality | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 4.3
In the final episode of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, philosophers Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin conclude their discussion of…
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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…
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Antisemitism, Cain and Abel, and the Roots of Hatred | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 4.1
Why does antisemitism keep returning? In this episode of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin begin Part Four…
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A Mother’s Wisdom: Finding Sanity After Brainwashing | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.4
The strange world Abigail entered under Suzanne’s influence has reached its breaking point. Letters are being sent in Abigail’s name, passports and ordinary…
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The Cult of One: Brainwashing, Manipulation, and the Search for Truth | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.3
Abigail L Rosenthal thought she had entered a philosophical thought experiment. Now she is forced to consider something far more disturbing: whether her…
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The Search for Perfection: Gnostic Christianity and Spiritual Power | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.2
Abigail L. Rosenthal is searching for a way out of a life that no longer seems to be working. Then she meets Suzanne. Suzanne speaks with unusual authority…
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Intelligent Hope: When Life No Longer Makes Sense | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.1
What happens when the ideas that once gave your life direction no longer seem to work? In this episode, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin explore the…
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Can a Woman Be Feminine and a Philosopher? | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 2.4
Can a woman be feminine and a philosopher? Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin explore the tension between femininity and intellectual life, drawing on…
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When Ideals Become Dangerous: Courage, Revolution, and Conviction | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 2.3
What happens when living by your ideals becomes dangerous? In this episode of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L…
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Secrecy, Truth, and the Aftermath of First Love | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 2.2
In this episode of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Jerry L. Martin and Abigail L. Rosenthal continue their conversation about the aftermath of…
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The Impossible Position of the Jews | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 2.1
What does it mean to be one of God’s chosen people, and why does the Jewish covenant carry both honor and an impossible burden? In this episode of Married…
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Desire, Dominion, and the Difference Between Men and Women | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.5
What does desire reveal about the difference between men and women? In this episode, married philosophers Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin return to a…
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From Violation to Sisterhood: The Friend Who Understood | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.4
After her violating experience with Phidias leaves Abigail frightened, heartbroken, and facing the possibility of pregnancy, she turns to her friend Harper…
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After Innocence: Love, Violation, and the Choice to Continue | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.3
In Part 1.3 of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin continue their conversation on Part One of Confessions of a…
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First Kiss, Innocence, and the Female Predicament | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.2
In Part 1.2 of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin continue their conversation on Part One of Confessions of a…
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Paris, Desire, and the Female Predicament | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.1
What does it mean to be desired—and what happens if you are not? In Part One of Confessions of a Young Philosopher, Abigail L. Rosenthal arrives in Paris on a…
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Leaving Home, True Love, and the Search for Meaning | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Preface
What do you carry with you when you leave home for the first time? In Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, philosophers Jerry L. Martin and Abigail L…
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How A Radically Personal God Works In Real Lives - Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue
In this deeply personal and spiritually rich episode, philosopher Jerry L. Martin is joined by Abigail L. Rosenthal on his podcast God An Autobiography for an…
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What Is Love - Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue
In this episode, Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal joins her husband Dr. Jerry L. Martin on his podcast God An Autobiography to ask a question deeply human and…
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Preface, Part 4 - Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions
"God is not fooled. Everybody else could be fooled, but in that respect—just as you can’t fool a child by pretending to be benevolent and love the cute little…
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Preface, Part 3 - Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions
"I did feel obligated, as a Jewish girl who was not stupid, to situate my life on the larger map of human striving in a world that was wide, not narrow. I…
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Preface Part 2: Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions
"If we’re talking about how to understand the Abigail who sets forth on her life journey in the opening pages of this book, I could be deemed naive. But about…
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Encore Marie Antoinette
This week, Abbie revisits the unforgettable story of Marie Antoinette. First shared in an earlier podcast, Encore Marie Antoinette reflects on what made the…
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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions
Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal (author of Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column) are discussing her just-published book Confessions of a Young…
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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 3
Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal (author of Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column) pursue their discussion of Beginningwise, which is Part One of…
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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 2
Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal (author of Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column) pursue their discussion of Beginningwise, which is Part One of…
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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 1
Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal (author of Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column) begin their discussion of Beginningwise, which is Part One of…
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In the Hall of Mourning, There are Many Mansions
What is death? And btw, what do we aim for in life? Read this episode on my blog HERE Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE A Good Look at…
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The Burning of Notre Dame
Notre Dame is the heart of Paris. No one builds like that today. By contrast, efforts have been made to replace the World Trade Center – not adequately, in my…
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Tintoretto
By contrast nowadays, to depict persons or things “honestly,” it’s thought that they must be rendered ungainly or in some way visually absurd. Read this…
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Wickedness and Suffering
Getting ready for bed, I thought of this vast sea of suffering. I prayed to see it clear – to be shown its inner features and the size of it — relative to…
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Evil is Really Not Banal
Was “evil” trying to find out if I really meant what I wrote? Read this episode on my blog HERE Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE A Good…
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Nibbles from the Tree of Knowledge
On my night table for last read of the evening is a book with the title, Forbidden Knowledge. It concerns a topic that I’d never considered as such: whether…
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Jewish Time
Lately, I’ve had a growing sense of living my life on something I call “Jewish Time.” Have I anything concrete in view? Read this episode on my blog HERE…
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The Big City and Me
It is the town where my mother captured the Nazi spy ring being run out of the basement of the walkup apartment on 86th and Park where our family lived during…
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I Was Politically Correct for 15 Minutes
It happened like this. I was remembering a case I know of, where a young woman, who had her whole life before her, was being forced into the sealed back of a…
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Feminism without Contradictions
Even to suggest that feminism’s theoretical foundations need reworking might seem a tad risky. Well, gee, that’s tough. As I sometimes said when I taught…
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Economic Life
So what’s it all about, economic life? People will kill and die for their economic theories, but the theories never quite square with the way things are –…
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The Horse Knows
Facebook had an advertisement for something called Equine Gestalt Coaching Method. I consider horses to be good for you, with or without the “Gestalt” part…
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What About the Jews?
When you think of it, the anti-semite’s belief pays a sort of inverted tribute to the claim God makes for the descendants of Father Abraham: In thee shall all…
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Competitive Friendships
I have just been reading the youthful correspondence between my future father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and his best friend in college and for some years…
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Admiration
In the claims and counter-claims of real life, what is to count as evidence? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City…
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What’s Your Evidence?
So how does one stay real, and stay in real life, at times of utter frustration? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City…
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Are People Really Good at Heart?
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” These words — set down as a belief, not a question — are among the last lines…
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Beatrice in Modern Gear
Of course, many a woman has tried to save a man to her own detriment and without succeeding. There are excellent reasons to warn a girl against embracing such…
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Delusions of Intellection
“People live and die by ideas!” “You are what you think – much more than what you eat!” With encouraging words like these, I would try to persuade students in…
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Private Matters
If you think we weren’t scared, think again. We each have a long list of very realistic reasons to believe that we can’t – without extreme diminishment –…
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Persecution and the Art of Writing
Why should truth-seekers hide their findings? It sounded like a Conspiracy Theory without conspirators, a drama without Dramatis Personae, a tempest in an…
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Walking Into The Fire: The Politically Incorrect Phyllis Chesler
Do men and women now treat each other better than they once did? The feminist revolution peeled off the conventions that used to govern relations between the…
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Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and…
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Homage To Milbridge
There people know you in the round. If you want to do something you don’t want the whole town to know, don’t do it in Milbridge. By the same token, if you want…
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Wingeing, Death and Debility
What’s the best way to live? What’s the best way to die? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She…
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Paradigm Shifts
We live under the sheltering umbrellas of our worldviews. To the point where we would feel naked if we were caught in the street without them. Abigail L…
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Shunning
We are social beings, so nobody likes to be shunned. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is…
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Sacrificial Acts
It’s occurred to me that, several times in the past, I succeeded better at an effort when I didn’t do it for me. I don’t mean that I got “ego” out of the way…
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My Identity Crisis
The task of A Good Look at Evil is to make clear the shape of a good life and the role of evil in trying to destroy what is good in a life. Abigail L…
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Philosophy
As a little girl, I would set the lunch table extra slowly so that I could overhear the philosophic conversations between my father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and…
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Revisiting Country Gospel
Being born and raised a Jewish girl from Manhattan’s old-rent, upper east side, the last thing I’m expected to like is country gospel. Or so I’m often told…