![]() ![]() ![]() Pride is self-respect and self-esteem, he says, but then warns that pride is arrogance and hubris as well. It's author reminds us that he has a lot to be proud of, his teachers, his family, the books he's read and written. ![]() The complexities and ambiguities of pride form the final installment in a series of short books presented by the Oxford University Press and the New York Public Library. Of all the deadly sins, writes Michael Eric Dyson, pride is most likely to stir debate about whether it's a sin at all. But then there's parental pride, pride in one's work, pride for your school or your city or your country. Lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony and sloth are all bad, the sages say, but pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin. ![]() Of the seven deadly sins, theologians and philosophers reserve a special place for pride.
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