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ON AMERICA'S HERO FETISH:
It’s very unsettling, how quick we are to celebrate individuals as heroic and extraordinary, different from the rest of us riff-raff. Obviously some people are uniquely talented, b... See more
Haley Nahman • #104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
According to Hegel, human history was driven by a struggle for recognition. He argued that the only rational solution to the desire for recognition was universal recognition, in which the dignity of every human being was recognized.
Francis Fukuyama • Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
This, it would seem, is yet another example of white privilege—to retain humanity in the face of inhumanity. For criminals who defy our understanding of danger, the cultural threshold for forgiveness is incredibly low.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist: Essays
Leonard Morton on Substack
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The inventor of Self-Verification Theory, Bill Swann
Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified
... See moreThe Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may se
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