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Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Others

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein · 2 Feb 2026

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  1. Our reading

    We sometimes think we understand a new idea when we have mistaken it for one we already knew.

    Their wordsBut this does mean we sometimes think we understand an idea when we don’t, mistaking it for an idea already in our repertoire.

  2. Our reading

    Mattering to others is essential to living a flourishing life.

    Their wordsMattering to others is essential to living a life of flourishing.

  3. Our reading

    Loneliness is incompatible with a flourishing life.

    Their wordsThese social relationships prevent the pain of loneliness, and loneliness is incompatible with a flourishing life.

  4. Our reading

    Being deprived of existential mattering is incompatible with a flourishing life.

    Their wordsObviously, the deprivation of existential mattering is also incompatible with a life of flourishing.

  5. Our reading

    Philosophy tries to understand foundational ideas that we normally use without reflecting on them.

    Their wordsPhilosophy is the field that tries to understand ideas that are foundational to our thinking but that, in the normal course of our thinking, we just use rather than reflect upon.

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