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Jamie Wheal With Dr. Tara Isabella Burton - Meaning-Making

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Are We All Social Animals?

David Frum: The idea that the truest or most fundamental parts of our humanity can be found in our desires and not our obligations, risks cutting us off from one of the most important truths about being human. He says we are so inclined to thinking of ourselves as all on our own individual hero's journey and other people as characters in that journey. Frum: All too often, the language of self-actualization becomes a kind of completely private endeavor that's somehow held up to the level of a moral duty for us as human beings.

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