Pride – Sin or Virtue?

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

• PrefaceIntroduction1 The Duality of Pride1 Emotion and Character2 The State of the Question3 History and PhilosophyPart 1The History of Pride2 Gods, Heroes and Men1 The Warrior Aristocracy2 The Olympic Games3 The Panegyric of Democracy4 The Myth of Prometheus3 The Pride of Philosophers1 The Philosopher-Kings2 Greatness of Soul3 Hubris, Outrage and Excess4 Pride and Work4 The Hubris of the Angel1 The Problem of Sources2 The Creation of the Angels3 The Sin of the Angel4 The Fall of the Angel5 The Hubris of the Human1 The State of Innocence2 General Pride and Special Pride3 Moral Humility and Spiritual Humility4 Original Sin5 The Implications of the Thomist Interpretation6 Piety and Justice1 The Four Stages of History2 The Two Pillars of the Old Testament3 The Exclusivity of the God of Israel4 Orphans, Widows and Foreigners7 Pride and Knowledge1 The Devil’s Crony2 The Curiosity of Doctor Faustus3 The Plurality of Faustuses4 Excess and Pride5 The Condemnation and Salvation of FaustusPart 2The Philosophy of Pride8 The Virtue of Pride1 From Myth to Lógos2 Opinions, Desires, Emotions3 The Passions of the Soul4 Pride, Magnanimity and Humility5 Pride and Dignity9 Humility and Resentment1 The Morality of Aristocrats and the Morality of Slaves2 The Transvaluation of Values3 Christian Humility, Resentment and Fraternity4 The Ambiguities of Christian Morality5 Nietzschean Love and Pride10 The Pride of the Masses1 Philosophy and Poetry2 No-One Is More than any One3 Resentment and Mass-Pride11 Identity and Difference1 Black Pride2 lgbtiq+ Pride3 Collective Pride4 Science and Pride12 The Phenomenology of Pride1 The Essence of Pride2 Variations of the Proximate Kind: Emotion3 Variations of Subject and Material Object: Oneself4 Variations of the Formal Object: Excellence5 Variations of Modality: Order and DisorderPart 3The Future of Pride13 Post-pride1 Infra-humanity and Post-humanity2 Subhuman, Human and Superhuman Dignity3 The Morality and Pride of Supermen4 Fundamental Prideological Meditation5 The Transvaluation of PrideBibliographyIndex