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    It is not the case that The narcissistic mindset (level one) lacks sufficient self-grounding and opens toward the Confucian relational mindset (level two)

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    • 1.Awareness of others as obstacles or instruments does not entail recognition of others as constitutive of the self.
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    • 2.Sartrean bad faith demonstrates that the ego can systematically misuse awareness of others to reinforce solipsistic self-enclosure rather than relational opening.
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    • 3.A narcissistic mindset can thus achieve stable self-grounding precisely through its instrumentalization of others, never requiring the Confucian relational turn.
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    • 1.Buddhist anattā doctrine holds that the very notion of a self requiring relational grounding remains a cognitive error, not a developmental stage toward wisdom.
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    • 2.If the narcissistic level and the Confucian relational level both presuppose a substantive self, they occupy the same ontological mistake rather than a developmental hierarchy.
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    • 1.The narcissistic mindset places one's own interest above others
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    • 2.To prioritize one's own interest above others, one must account for the existence of those others in one's own awareness
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    • 3.Accounting for others in one's awareness implies that the self is relational
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