(February 18, 2023 at 9:30 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(February 18, 2023 at 9:11 pm)Objectivist Wrote: The only instance I can find of the word pride not being used to mean a vice is this: In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Yeah, that's Isaiah 4:2, the exception I mentioned earlier.
So it seems that Dante's use of pride is consistent with the Bible's.
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
