Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast

Abigail L. Rosenthal

Episodes 266
Avg. Duration 10m
Activity Dormant
Since Oct 2021
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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About This 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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S1E239 How A Radically Personal God Works In Real Lives - Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue

Jul 10, 2025 45m

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 intimate conversation about divine…

S1E238 What Is Love - Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue

Jul 03, 2025 45m

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…

S1E237 Preface, Part 4 - Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions

Jun 12, 2025 15m Transcript

"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…

S1E236 Preface, Part 3 - Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions

Jun 05, 2025 13m

"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…

S1E235 Preface Part 2: Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions

May 22, 2025 18m Transcript

"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…

S1E88 Encore Marie Antoinette

May 15, 2025 13m Transcript

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…

S1E235 Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions

May 01, 2025 16m Transcript

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. Explore more…

S1E234 Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 3

Apr 17, 2025 14m Transcript

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…

S1E234 Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 2

Apr 10, 2025 19m Transcript

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…

S1E233 Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 1

Apr 03, 2025 17m Transcript

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…

S1E233 In the Hall of Mourning, There are Many Mansions

Mar 27, 2025 9m Transcript

What is death?  And btw, what do we aim for in life?Read this episode on my blog  HEREConfessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now!  HEREA Good Look at  Evil Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor…

S1E232 The Burning of Notre Dame

Mar 20, 2025 7m Transcript

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…

S1E231 Tintoretto

Mar 13, 2025 8m Transcript

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  HEREConfessions of a Young…

S1E230 Wickedness and Suffering

Mar 06, 2025 12m Transcript

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…

S1E229 Evil is Really Not Banal

Feb 27, 2025 10m Transcript

Was “evil” trying to find out if I really meant what I wrote?Read this episode on my blog  HEREConfessions of a Young Philosopher Available Now!  HEREA Good Look at  Evil Abigail L. Rosenthal is…

S1E228 Nibbles from the Tree of Knowledge

Feb 20, 2025 12m

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…

S1E227 Jewish Time

Feb 13, 2025 9m

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  HEREConfessions of a Young Philosopher Available…

S1E226 The Big City and Me

Feb 06, 2025 12m

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…

S1E225 I Was Politically Correct for 15 Minutes

Jan 30, 2025 13m

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…

S1E224 Feminism without Contradictions

Jan 23, 2025 14m Transcript

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…

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