Simon Blackburn was Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. He now works for the New College of the Humanities, and for part of the year in the United States. His book on which this article is based, Mirror, Mirror: the Uses and Abuses of Self-love, will be published by Princeton University Press in Spring, 2014.
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Published in: TransformationLove, vanity and wealth
Secure in gated communities and smoke-tinted limousines, the rich have no desire or motive to transform ‘I’ into...