Death and the Self (Robert Wright & Nina Strohminger)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Nina's research on how we understand the self ... The traits that make your self yourself ... Buddhism and the continuity of self through time ... The link between egocentrism and an equanimous attitude toward death ... Bob: Not-self is hard to experience and very hard to understand ... Asian Buddhists vs. "white boy Buddhists" ... Does a happy life require virtuous behavior? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Nina.
0:10.1	Hi, Bob.
0:10.9	How are you?
0:12.2	I'm wonderful.
0:13.5	Good.
0:15.4	I can't claim to be that good, but I'm very happy to be with you.
0:18.9	Let me introduce this.
0:19.8	I'm Robert Wright.
0:20.4	This is The Right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You are Nina Strominger.
0:26.8	You are a professor at Penn. You're a professor both in the psychology department,
0:32.6	I guess also at the Wharton School. Is that right? That's right.
0:37.3	As Donald Trump, who was at the Wharton School as an undergraduate, has pointed out,
0:41.9	it is the best business school in the world.
0:46.4	Right.
0:47.0	So you imagine how smart the students are and the professors there must be even smarter.
0:52.4	Yeah, because it's the best. People. Because it's the best.
0:54.9	People are saying it's the best.
0:57.8	So you've done a lot of interesting work on, for one thing, the idea of the self,
1:06.7	you know, how people think of, well, how they think of their self,
1:11.4	what it means to have a self, an identity,
1:14.1	and how they think of other people's selves,
	...

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