gen z seems to have two opposing attitudes: 1) on a macro scale, we should make the world a better place; 2) on an individual scale, my needs come first before everyone else. why is that? how should we treat people in our individual interactions? let's explore a history of western philosophy and see how that influenced self-centred attitudes of today.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 why is being nice a problem?
2:37 michelle's tiktoks
4:34 background on western philosophy
5:50 hegel's subject-object relation
8:41 emmanuel levinas: everything begins with ethics
15:30 isn't levinas overdramatic?
15:55 an important side-note!
17:29 clarifying phenomenology
19:34 individualism & virtue-signaling
21:06 gen z's macro vs. micro attitudes
24:38 gift economy vs. private property economy
28:04 online intensifies individualism
29:30 "i'm just brutally honest"
31:42 the nice woman
34:03 wanting validation is A-OK

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SOURCES:
Emmanuel Levinas. (1984). Ethics as First Philosophy.
Emmanuel Levinas. (1982). Ethics and Infinity.
Jean-Paul Sartre. (1938). Nausea.
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