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mercredi, 06 mai 2015

Vanity, Pretentiousness, & Snobbery

 

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Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald
Vanity, Pretentiousness, & Snobbery

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Greg Johnson has a conversation with Canadian filmmaker Hugh MacDonald about the concepts vanity, pretentiousness, and snobbery. Topics include:

  • Good and bad senses of vanity
  • Good and bad senses of pretentiousness
  • The concept of taste
  • Good and bad senses of snobbery
  • Elitism
  • Bad vanity, pretentiousness, and snobbery all have aspects of failure and falsehood
  • Narcissism
  • Rousseau on vanity (amour propre) vs. self-love (amour de soi-meme)
  • Vanity and honor
  • Caring about the opinions of others
  • Vanity and civilization

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