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 .
Episodes
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 spiritually profound:
What is love and what does it reveal about the nature of the world we live in?
Jerry and Abigail remind us that truth is not always found in the dominant worldview. Often, it comes from moments that break through: a glance, a conversation, a shared fight for so...
"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 number when you don’t—the child is not fooled. The dog is not fooled. You know, there are humble creatures in life who are simply not fooled by grown-up pretenses, and God seems to be in that number."
"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 wanted to know where I was and not just in the realm of personal options. I sought to get my bearings and location in human history itself. I just wanted to know how to find me in the bigger story.”
"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 the hovering presence of unspeakable horror at the outside of this visual screen of the world that I was looking at, I couldn’t be unaware of that."
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the auth...
This week, Abbie revisits the unforgettable story of Marie Antoinette. First shared in an earlier podcast, Encore Marie Antoinette reflects on what made the Queen of France so captivating—and so condemned. Was she a symbol, a scapegoat, or simply herself?
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 nomin...
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 Philosopher.
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Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthc...
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 her new book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. Let’s see how their discussion goes forward.
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Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City Univer...
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 her new book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. Let’s see how their discussion goes forward.
Explore more about Confessions of a Young Philosopher.
Get Confessions of a Young Philosopher.
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University ...
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 her new book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. Let’s see how their discussion goes forward.
Explore more about Confessions of a Young Philosopher.
Get Confessions of a Young Philosopher.
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University o...
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 Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in the tradition of Augusti...
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 view, but a building of the same form could be replicated were one so minded.
Read this episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College ...
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 episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (for...
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 humanity as a whole. In what world do we live?
Read this episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New ...
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 Look at Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in ...
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 there are, or ought to be, built-in limits to what we as human beings should seek to know.
Aristotle said,
“All men by nature desire to know.”
Read this episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
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
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcomin...
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 the War years. My mother wondered why our superintendent did not allow suitcases to be stored in the basement. . .
Read this episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
A Good Look at Evil
Abigail L....
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 truck. Uniformed Nazis were turning a hose filled with carbon monoxide into the space where they had confined the young woman and her family. This occurred in the late 1930’s, the run-up decade before the Holocaust. . .
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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 Philosophic Foundations of Feminism: “If I wanna be pushed around, I don’t need other feminists. I can find a man to do it.” . . .
Read this episode on my blog HERE
Confessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now! HERE
Abigail L. Rosenthal i...
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 – behind the theorizing.
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in the tradition of August...
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