Pride – Sin or Virtue?

History and Phenomenology of a Janus-faced Emotion

Ricardo Parellada (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68326-6 (ISBN)

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From Homeric heroes, Lucifer and Faust to the phenomenology of individual and social emotions, this book unfolds historical dimensions, literary recreations and philosophical analyses of the most ambivalent emotion of pride, from worst of sins to noblest feeling.

Wounded pride of the hero motivated one of the primal poems, pride of the angel caused his downfall and hubris of man cost him his expulsion from earthly paradise and the sale of his soul to the devil. Different forms of pride play a central role in many myths. This book conscientiously reviews the history of these emotions, literary recreations and philosophical approaches and accounts for their relevance in the contemporary world. It offers an original phenomenology of pride, which draws on preceding historical and analytical work, and a conceptual and musical speculation on the future of posthuman pride.

Ricardo Parellada obtained his Ph.D. from Complutense University of Madrid in 2000. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy working in philosophical anthropology and has written four books in Spanish: La idealidad del espacio. La filosofía transcendental y el desarrollo de la geometría (2003), Divertimentos filosóficos (2015), El orgullo. ¿Vicio o virtud? (2019), Análisis y acción. Estudios y ensayos filosóficos (2021).

Preface

Introduction

1 The Duality of Pride

1 Emotion and Character

2 The State of the Question

3 History and Philosophy

Part 1

The History of Pride

2 Gods, Heroes and Men

1 The Warrior Aristocracy

2 The Olympic Games

3 The Panegyric of Democracy

4 The Myth of Prometheus

3 The Pride of Philosophers

1 The Philosopher-Kings

2 Greatness of Soul

3 Hubris, Outrage and Excess

4 Pride and Work

4 The Hubris of the Angel

1 The Problem of Sources

2 The Creation of the Angels

3 The Sin of the Angel

4 The Fall of the Angel

5 The Hubris of the Human

1 The State of Innocence

2 General Pride and Special Pride

3 Moral Humility and Spiritual Humility

4 Original Sin

5 The Implications of the Thomist Interpretation

6 Piety and Justice

1 The Four Stages of History

2 The Two Pillars of the Old Testament

3 The Exclusivity of the God of Israel

4 Orphans, Widows and Foreigners

7 Pride and Knowledge

1 The Devil’s Crony

2 The Curiosity of Doctor Faustus

3 The Plurality of Faustuses

4 Excess and Pride

5 The Condemnation and Salvation of Faustus

Part 2

The Philosophy of Pride

8 The Virtue of Pride

1 From Myth to Lógos

2 Opinions, Desires, Emotions

3 The Passions of the Soul

4 Pride, Magnanimity and Humility

5 Pride and Dignity

9 Humility and Resentment

1 The Morality of Aristocrats and the Morality of Slaves

2 The Transvaluation of Values

3 Christian Humility, Resentment and Fraternity

4 The Ambiguities of Christian Morality

5 Nietzschean Love and Pride

10 The Pride of the Masses

1 Philosophy and Poetry

2 No-One Is More than any One

3 Resentment and Mass-Pride

11 Identity and Difference

1 Black Pride

2 lgbtiq+ Pride

3 Collective Pride

4 Science and Pride

12 The Phenomenology of Pride

1 The Essence of Pride

2 Variations of the Proximate Kind: Emotion

3 Variations of Subject and Material Object: Oneself

4 Variations of the Formal Object: Excellence

5 Variations of Modality: Order and Disorder

Part 3

The Future of Pride

13 Post-pride

1 Infra-humanity and Post-humanity

2 Subhuman, Human and Superhuman Dignity

3 The Morality and Pride of Supermen

4 Fundamental Prideological Meditation

5 The Transvaluation of Pride

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy in Spain ; 394
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	538 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	90-04-68326-7 / 9004683267
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68326-6 / 9789004683266
Zustand	Neuware