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Desperately Seeking Approval: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Approval and Recognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linda Timmel Duchamp
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Abstract

Victoria Davion confuses seeking approval with the desire for recognition of and respect for one's difference. Ironically, when she asserts that the desire to please others provides an incentive to do well (and thus constitutes a positive aspect of competition) Davion undermines her argument that competition enhances one's sense of self. Rather than enhancing one's sense of self, striving to win approval from others sabotages one's ability to rely on her own judgment and take moral responsibility for herself.

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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 163 - 164
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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References

Davion, Victoria. 1987. Do good feminists compete? Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 2(2):55–64.10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01065.xCrossRefGoogle Scholar