Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an award-winning philosopher, writer, and public intellectual.She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and has taught at Yale, Columbia, NYU, Dartmouth, and Harvard. In 2015, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
Rebecca begins the conversation with a definition of The Mattering Instinct, the title of her new book. It is an exploration of how different people have different ways of being deserving of their own attention. This leads to another of Rebecca’s insights - her Mattering Map, a taxonomy of how different people determine their personal mattering projects along very different lines. Composed of Transcenders, Socializers, Competitors, and Heroic Strivers, Rebecca explains how each gives individuals very different priorities and trajectories in life, while certain moral constraints - especially the Golden Rule - applies to them all.
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