![]() The question, then, is how to discern the proper degree of self-regard. We now use the first-personal pronouns as a prefixes: we use iPods to listen to iTunes, and use our iPhones to take "selfies." And all of this self-assertion seems connected to social ills stemming from lack of concern with other selves. Indeed, culturally the self is increasingly dominant. And the transcending of the self is a central theme of our most popular religious traditions. Many moral views that otherwise are opposed to each other seem to agree that being good requires some kind of dissociation with the self. But a common theme of moral theory is that the self, and concern with the self, is the source of much that is immoral: selfishness, greed, vanity, arrogance, envy, and so on. The self lies at morality's core selves are intimately connected to the proper objects of moral evaluation. At the heart of our moral thinking lies trouble with our selves. ![]()
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