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On dignity
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In today’s video, I hiked for about an hour while expounding on the philosophical theme of dignity. This is the continuation of my previous two presentations (each of which is ~1 hour long): About “sorry for being a burden”: https://protesilaos.com/books/2022-10-31-sorry-for-being-burden/ . On the meaning and purpose of life: https://protesilaos.com/books/2022-11-02-meaning-purpose-life/ . It is not necessary to watch the previous two, as I summarise the points relevant to dignity. Though you may still want to watch or listen to them as they contain lots of ideas. Overview of what I talked about today: I made a mistake for saying that “today is Thursday”. It is Friday, 4 November 2022. Explanation of the underpinnings of “sorry for being a burden”. In short, it consists of (i) selfcentredness, (ii) obsession that turns into a bias that reduces others into the opposite of what the object of obsession is, and (iii) a rationalisation that self-loathing or self-hatred is a virtue because the person only does it for the good of others. Self-loathing masquerading as altruism is not really altruistic because it still contains misanthropy (misanthropy==hatred of humans) for someone: the se…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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