My thoughts on self-esteem, identity, objectification, Jean-Paul Sartre, and overcoming self-sabotaging narratives we tell ourselves.
How To Live Happily: Truthfully Understand Yourself and Your Constructive Potential
Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Ethics, Intellectual Vices, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Virtues Tagged With: Arrogance, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on humility, Ethics of Identity, False Modesty, Humility, Identity, Jean-Paul Sartre, Modesty, Objectification, Objectification of Women, Objectifying Gays, Objectifying Ourselves, Objectifying the Other, Pride, Self Esteem, Self-creation, Sexual Objectification, Stoicism 5 Comments
On Unintentionally Intimidating People
While most of us rightly want to be exceptional in some way or another, we often feel a lot of social and moral pressure not to think of ourselves as generally better than others. And, even more urgently, we feel pressure not to convey to others that we think ourselves superior and not to be [...]
Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Virtues, Virtues Tagged With: False Modesty, Graciousness, Intimidating People, Modesty, Self-Deprecation, Sensitivity, Virtues 10 Comments
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