The Disease of Self-Humiliation and the Therapy of Self-Knowledge

This show continues our discussion of 5/8/2020, "What We Owe to Ourselves: Duties to Ourselves and What it Means to Violate Them". We began that show with a discussion of humiliation between persons ("A to B Humiliation"). We then asked whether this model can be applied to oneself. Philosophers from Plato to Kant have identified different aspects of the human psyche which can conflict with one another (Plato speaks of reason, appetite and spirit; Kant speaks of the inclinations of the "homo phenomenon" which can conflict with the moral law of the "homo noumeonon"), this making it possible to think of one of these aspects within one person as "humiliating" the other. Both Plato and Kant also identify a kind of self-knowledge as the remedy to this kind of self-humiliation. We continue discussing these ideas and connect them to "unintentional humiliation" as discussed by Dr. Evelin Lindner in her book "Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict."