Wojciech Kaftanski

In the social media age, it seems impossible not to measure ourselves against others – but we can dodge the worst pitfalls Do you regularly find yourself flipping through insufferably perfect images of people’s lives on your smartphone? Do you keep track of who gets promoted at work, who upgrades their car in the neighbourhood, and whose kids get into an Ivy League school?

“Spirit is precisely: not to be like the others”. (M: 344)1 “Social comparisons have both cognitive and affective consequences”. 1. Introduction Kierkegaard After MacIntyre has opened an important avenue for reading Kierkegaard in dialogue with virtue ethics.