"My own prime fault," he admits, is "
pridefulness," and he had many reasons for it.
(34) Yet, Hays saw this as one of his most significant failings and a sign of his own
pridefulness. Reflecting on these events, Hays insisted that if his "defeat in 1958 atones for that mistake then you're looking at one of the happiest politicians that was ever defeated for office." (35)
In everyday speech, an accusation of greediness is always an accusation of immorality, and there is rarely the ambivalent tinge of admiration associated with similar accusations, such as the charge of
pridefulness or ambition.
in agonistic struggle against "John Bull," but Stauffer argues that Rossetti's poem reflected these glints of cultural history in its "moves between mockery and wonder, ironically exposing imperial
pridefulness while negotiating [Rossetti's] own conflicted attitudes towards Catholicism in the 1850s." Quaint illustrations (among them a Punch cartoon of a British lion atop a frowning Assyrian bull adorned with papal crown) support Stauffer's points, and his close historical study clarifies an unexpectedly whimsical aspect of Rossetti's icon of brute imperial force.
"There is an element of
pridefulness at work that doesn't acknowledge or permit these things to come into play," says Bruce Buchanan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in Austin.
(The Self at Stake, Against `Self-Esteem')"; Chapter 2, "The Earthly City and Its Discontents (The Plot Thickens, The Household and the City)"; Chapter 3, "Against the
Pridefulness of Philosophy (Knowledge of Mind, Knowledge of Self, Knowledge of World, Knowledge of God)"; Chapter 4, "Augustine's Evil--Arendt's Eichmann (Augustine's Evil, Evil Unmasked But Not Unchained)"; Chapter 5, "`Our Business with this Common Mortal life'--Augustine and a Politics of Limits (Two Cities Yet Again, The One and the Many Reconfigured)"; Epilogue, "Loving Crazy Horse and Augustine."
"Human disputes are utterly different [from other obstacles], and make absolutely necessary at all times the existence of some such supreme power."(56) In the absence of such a power, human
pridefulness creates perpetual conflict, and such a condition is clearly anathema to self-development.
