Vanity, Pretentiousness, & Snobbery

 

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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