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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Apr 26
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    Abraham Maslow. I never took him seriously: ancient history; discredited woo. Skimming his 1964 _Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences_; realizing I was wrong. Read charitably, he’s got considerable wisdom & rigorous sense about meaningness that our culture has lost since.

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      1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Apr 26
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        This is simultaneously ridiculous and politically unacceptable; you could not publish it now. It’s also true (in some sense) and important (in some sense) and everyone knows that (in some sense). Not a typical passage, but it stuck out for me.pic.twitter.com/hYAj9MTL3W

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      2. mutual‏ @mutual_ayyde Apr 26
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        Scott Barry looked at Maslow's old stuff and it turns out that he actually may have been far closer to your position. Haven't read his book so IDK but his interview with Sean Carroll was really good and you might find something useful in it https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/04/06/91-scott-barry-kaufman-on-the-psychology-of-transcendence/ …

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        Thanks for pointing to this! and @seanmcarroll for interviewing @sbkaufman Just to make the link, I love the "dynamical metaphor of a sailboat, where the hull *cough markov blanket cough* represents basic security needs and the sail more creative and dynamical capabilities"

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      2. ryan‏ @context_ing Apr 26
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        @qorprate

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        heh i only got one chapter into that text but I'd like to revisit it. Maslow himself is a little underrated, the colloquial understanding of his hierarchy of needs is pretty poor :(

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      1. Simon Grégoire‏ @gripa_uqam Apr 26
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        This new book by Scott Barry Kaufman might be of interest :https://scottbarrykaufman.com/books/transcend/ …

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      1. Bruno Arine‏ @BrunoArine Apr 26
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        Still about Maslow, there's an article about subjective well-being that mentions a revised pyramid of human motivation. You may find it interesting. https://www.nobascholar.com/chapters/28/download.pdf …

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        When I was lecturing I always talked him down to my students, derisively referring to his ‘hierarchy’ as only a ‘list inside a triangle’, merely a starting point for later more useful theories. Quite a few years later I looked further into his work, I was quite surprised, depthy.

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      1. Robert M Ellis‏ @RobertMEllis2 Apr 27
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        Maslow is the influential reminder that not all functions are reductively evolutionary.

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