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🗓️ 24 May 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Vanity, smugness, narcissism - they're not good, but they're not all the same thing. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Simon Blackburn explores what's wrong with narcissism and how it differs from related concepts.
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0:00.0 | This is Philosophy Bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds. |
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0:18.0 | We're quite proud of philosophy bites, but not too proud, just proud enough. We hope we're not vain, smug or conceited about it. |
0:26.4 | But what does this mean? What is the difference between pride, vanity, self-esteem and |
0:31.4 | narcissism? What is the right amount of pride? Are we becoming |
0:35.9 | too tolerant of the self-obsessed? As you'll hear, these questions have been getting into |
0:41.0 | Cambridge Emeritus Professor Simon Blackburn's hair. |
0:44.0 | Simon Blackburn, welcome to Philosophy Bites. |
0:47.0 | Thank you, Nigel. |
0:48.0 | Lovely to be here. |
0:49.0 | The topic we're going to focus on is narcissism. |
0:52.0 | Can we just start by saying what narcissism is and |
0:56.7 | how it differs from some things which are quite close to it? |
0:58.9 | Yes, well I think the fundamental distinction is the narcissist is wrapped up in himself. |
1:05.7 | In the Greek myth narcissists, of course, everybody knows he looks at his image |
1:10.1 | and falls in love with it and then he's self-obsessed. |
1:13.6 | What some people don't know about the myth is that the only voice he ever hears |
1:17.8 | is that of the nymph echo. |
1:20.0 | And what this mythologizes this as a signal of is that the only voice he hears is that of his own imagination. |
1:28.0 | He imagines what other people are saying about himself. |
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