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Sociology
Mostafa Malekian: Intellectuals Must Abandon Their Narcissism
Mostafa Malekian calls on intellectuals to set aside narcissism and prejudice so they may realize they need one another’s ideas. In his view, without camp-building and the language of battlefronts, a lose-lose transaction can be turned into a win-win.
My solution is for intellectuals to abandon their narcissism—the attitude that truth resides with me and no one else. They must also relinquish prejudice toward other intellectuals, bias toward their own faction and intellectual camp, and dogmatism, and turn toward tolerance. All of these solutions are psychological and ethical, and no institution needs to be formed. If this narcissism disappears, then Malekian will know that he needs the views of Dr. Soroush, Dr. Soroush will know that he needs the views of Babak Ahmadi, Babak Ahmadi will know that he needs the views of Morad Farhadpour, and so on... My point is that we will all realize that we need one another.
For my part, I am proud to draw upon the views of diverse and varied intellectuals such as Mohammad Reza Nikfar, Morad Farhadpour, Babak Ahmadi, Abdolkarim Soroush, Arash Naraghi, Mojtahed Shabestari, Abolghasem Fanaei, Morad Saghafi, Ali Mirsepassi, Khashayar Deyhimi, and many other intellectuals. Narcissism, wherever it exists, is damaging—both to the narcissistic person themselves and to those who are influenced by the words and deeds of the narcissistic person. But if we do not abandon narcissism, we will ultimately end up with a lose-lose transaction, and provided that we have no camps and do not use the language of battlefronts, we can transform this lose-lose transaction into a win-win one.
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PDF file of this conversation
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Mostafa Malekian's conversation with Shargh newspaper, dated 1389/03/17
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