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The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Selflessness in Marriage

I wonder if you think it's possible that this is too self-centered a way of thinking about marriage and family, maybe even life itself. But let me push back a little bit on this if you don't mind. And I want to see what you think. Absolutely. You poke fun at your own selfishness and that New Yorker profile. The thought that you were being selfish, it's a new kind of selfishness that has only just recently become possible. There are many forms of selflessness that are very unromantic and that people don't really want from us.

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