Chapter 3 The Pride of Philosophers

In: Pride – Sin or Virtue?
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Ricardo Parellada
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S.P. Brykczynski
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Abstract

The intellectual pride of the two greatest philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) is manifested in two emblematic places: the government of the philosopher-kings and the moral ideal of magnanimity. To be noted in both cases are both the axiological roots of knowledge and the direction they take: political praxis and moral praxis. There is also a famous, specifically Greek form—húbris—whose interpretation will have to be qualified. Perhaps it is less well-known that in Greece other very different types of pride also appear, which also represent an anticipation of some which we consider to be contemporaneous: democratic pride and popular pride. The latter appears in the form of peasant pride. But what we can highlight historically with two words is the result of complex processes and gradual transformations. That is why it is advisable to take a brief look both at the history of the facts and of the mentalities, the history of Greek democracy and sophist thought.

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