Envy

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Overthink

社会与文化

2024-08-27

54 分钟
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Why are you so obsessed with me!? In episode 111 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle envy, jealousy, and admiration, in everything from Sigmund Freud to Regina George. They think through the role of envy in social media and status regulation alongside Sara Protasi's The Philosophy of Envy, and investigate the philosophical lineage of this maligned emotion. Does the barrage of others’ achievements on social media lead to ill-will or competitive self-improvement? Why do we seek to deny our o...
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  • Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.

  • Where your favorite philosophy professors try and help you feel better about yourselves by showing you that your problems today have been, in some form or another, the topic of philosophical debates for centuries.

  • I am David Pena Guzman.

  • And I am Ellie Anderson.

  • David, who's your favorite Envy character?

  • Like, weird phrase, but you know what I mean, right?

  • Like, who's like a favorite character of yours from literature, movies, et cetera?

  • Exemplifying Envy from Disney, it would have to be the queen in Snow White who is envious of the youthful beauty of her stepdaughter.

  • Although, fun fact, in the original tale, Snow White is the queen's biological daughter, which makes her envy all that much more unsettling.

  • What?

  • Oh, my God.

  • I didn't know that.

  • Yeah.

  • Oh, that is fascinating.

  • Come to think of it, there's a lot of older women characters in Disney movies who are figures of envy, right?