Alessandra Tanesini, "The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Four Vices of Supremacy
Medina talks about the four vices of superiority in her new book. She speculates that people who hold positions of privilege are more at risk from developing them. The arrogant person measures their own abilities, not by inaccurate by the metre of accuracy, but by how they feel about themselves. And so you have mismeasured abilities and a faulty attitude to yourself.
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