Pride sin Or Virtue?: History and Phenomenology of a Janus-faced Emotion

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Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 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
	Chapter 2 Gods, Heroes and Men
		1 The Warrior Aristocracy
		2 The Olympic Games
		3 The Panegyric of Democracy
		4 The Myth of Prometheus
	Chapter 3 The Pride of Philosophers
		1 The Philosopher-Kings
		2 Greatness of Soul
		3 Hubris, Outrage and Excess
		4 Pride and Work
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 10 The Pride of the Masses
		1 Philosophy and Poetry
		2 No One Is More Than Any One
		3 Resentment and Mass-Pride
	Chapter 11 Identity and Difference
		1 Black Pride
		2 LGBTIQ+ Pride
		3 Collective Pride
		4 Science and Pride
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Literature
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