Envy’s Moral-Psychological Challenge [Open College series]

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Topics: The issues // Philosophical context // What is envy? // Envy vs Jealousy vs Schadenfreude // Unpacking envy’s components // Non-envy alternative reactions

Transcription: Forthcoming.

Sources

• Exodus 34:14.
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals.
• Ayn Rand, “The Age of Envy.”
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
• John Rawls, A Theory of Justice.

Related

• A Russian joke about petty envy
• Envy
• Ethics for a Democratic Republic — white paper
• Toohey’s five strategies of altruism
• The Slave Morality of the Left — Nietzsche’s prescience

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