But if you change your point of view, a diamond is nothing but a little stone.
YOUTH: Well, intellectually it is. PHILOSOPHER: In other words, value is something that’s based on a social context.
The value given to a one-dollar bill is not an objectively attributed value, though that might be a commonsense approach.
If one considers its actual cost as printed material, the value is nowhere near a dollar.
If I were the only person in this world and no one else existed, I’d probably be putting those one-dollar bills in my fireplace in wintertime.
Maybe I’d be using them to blow my nose. Following exactly the same logic, there should have been no reason at all for me to worry about my height.
YOUTH: If you were the only person in this world and no one else existed? PHILOSOPHER: Yes.
The problem of value in the end brings us back to interpersonal relationships again.
YOUTH: So this connects to what you were saying about all problems being interpersonal relationship problems? PHILOSOPHER: Yes, that’s correct.
An Inferiority Complex Is an Excuse
YOUTH: But can you say for sure that feelings of inferiority are really a problem of interpersonal relationships?
Even the kind of person who is regarded socially as a success, who doesn’t need to debase himself in relationships with other people,
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