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"What Is the Difference between Self-Respect and Self-Esteem?"

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "There's a very big difference, according to Dr. Theodore Dalrymple of in character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues. He says, "Self-respect and self-esteem are as different as depth and shallowness."

From Theodore Dalrymple on Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect:

Self-esteemists, if I may so call those who are concerned with the levels of their own self-esteem, believe that it is something to which they have a right. If they don't have self-esteem in sufficient quantity to bring about a perfectly happy life, their fundamental rights are being violated. They feel aggrieved and let down by others rather than by themselves; they ascribe their lack of rightful self-esteem to the carping, and unjustified, criticism of parents, teachers, spouses, and colleagues..."

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Source: idealawg, 30 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).