In October, WDUi co-sponsored a program titled “The Dignity of an Intellectual Life for All.” Focusing on Dr. Zena Hitz’s thought-provoking book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020), the program examined the value of embracing the liberal arts and humanities for their own sake and considered how a rich intellectual life for everyone enhances human dignity.
The need for self-esteem “is perhaps the most pervasive of any of the needs in humans”
Paul Sites
from: “Needs as analogues of emotions” in J Burton (ed.) 1990, Conflict: human needs theory,
St. Martin’s Press, New York.
(found in Hilarie Roseman's book "Generating Forgiveness", Dignity Press 2014)