Is Jealousy Good?

On Agnes Callard, Heidegger, and Becoming

Agnes Callard—one of my favorite public philosophers—suggests that jealousy isn’t about wanting what someone else has, but wanting to be someone else. The reason is basically existential more than it is circumstantial. Other people remind us that we are finite—can only lead one life—only realize one irreversible path of decisions.

Her argument, which bor…