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Ambition vs. aspiration with philosopher Agnes Callard

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Aspiration

Ambition can be intrinsic. We might not like the picture of the world where the ambitious person just intrinsically wants money, or respect, or power. I think that what's distinctive about aspiration is that it's a change of your core motivations. So you're actually trying to acquire a new motivation. It's an attempt to expand your horizons or to change in the arena of value,. In the arena of what you care about.

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