Posts: 226
Threads: 3
Joined: August 26, 2019
Reputation:
6
RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
February 18, 2023 at 10:30 pm
(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."
Posts: 23
Threads: 1
Joined: February 25, 2023
Reputation:
0
RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
February 25, 2023 at 6:01 pm
Mervyn Peake has the eponymous Mr Pye get his comeuppance because of inordinate pride.
Posts: 19789
Threads: 57
Joined: September 24, 2010
Reputation:
85
RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
February 25, 2023 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2023 at 8:11 pm by Anomalocaris.)
it seems to me nothing could be more extravagantly prideful than religious faith. Faith in effect says you are give the real truth because you are you, and because you are you you are privileged to just know the truth with more certainty and reliability than any method which have actually proven to work.
if you don’t want to be obscenely stupidly overweening in your uninformed pridefulness, then jettison your faith.
