Pride
DRAFT
Aspect of pride: self-approval
Self-approval
Responsibility for a characteristic is not a conceptual condition for pride, though positive approval is a condition. Responsibility is not a condition of pride, for example, in instances of identity politics (black pride); one is not responsible for having been born black. Self approval can take the form of either 'self-respect' or 'self-esteem'. Whereas self-respect relates to rights and dignity, self-esteem relates to merits acheivments, self-evaluations. Neu (200?) argues that the latter can sometimes be unjustified, the former not; the latter more 'ungodly' than the latter. 'Transvaluation' denotes the emotional shift of values, namely from shame to pride towards a (social/personal) characteristic; previously despised property comes to be seen as valuable.
Sartre
Sartre (1949) argues that pride is a reaction to the more fundamental emotion shame (Transvaluation). In pride the for-itself resigns to being aspect of their self, an aspect that exists in virtue of its objectification through the look of the Other. Pride is inauthentic, according to Sartre, because
Neu
Notes
Bibliography
Neu, J.(2004), 'Emotions and freedom' in R. Solomon Thinking and Feeling. New York: Oxford.