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This chapter contains extensive philosophical analyses of pride and envy. How might we distinguish warranted self-regarding pride from unwarranted self-regarding pride (most particularly, arrogance)? What special dangers does unwarranted pride promote? What is envy? Why is envy so ubiquitous in human affairs? A thorough examination of human well-being casts light on the genesis of and antidotes to these capital vices. This examination includes explanations and assessments of mental state, desire fulfillment, and objective list theories of well-being. Dante celebrates an objective theory of human well-being such that wrongdoing is never in our best long-term interests. Thus, a felicitous, indestructible marriage between expediency and morality frames the human condition. To further illustrate the understandings elucidated in this chapter, I canvass the major exemplars of pride and envy that Dante provides readers in Inferno and Purgatorio. |
