Pride – Sin or Virtue?

History and Phenomenology of a Janus-faced Emotion

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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.
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2024
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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).
‘The analysis of the emotion of pride is approached with a masterful beauty, perfectly combining a double historical-hermeneutical and philosophical-phenomenological approach.’ - Sonia Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Distance Education, Spain

‘What a great book! Very well written, with clear ideas and masterfully developed. Also substantial and erudite. None of this prevents the author from using a subtle and ironic humor where it is appropriate and does not break the speech.’ - Mikel Gorriti, Ph.D. in Psychology, Basque Government

‘Written in simple and rigorous language, this book traces the history of the emotion of pride and analyses its growing importance in contemporary cultural, social and political movements. An excellent book.’ - Juan Antonio Valor, former Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid
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

Valuable book for scholars but also intended for a broader audience. It can be understood and enjoyed by readers interested in philosophy, history, and literature without a specific university degree.
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