2 QUOTES WITH «SELF-CONCEIT»
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self-conceit.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-CONCEIT»
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self-conceit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
self-conceit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason': A Critical Guide
selfishness, out of which self-conceit somehow arises. Self-conceit is thus not so
directly tied to our nature as is self-love. Kant says self-love is 'natural and astir in
useven prior to the moral law' (CpV 5:73), but he never says this of self-conceit.
Andrews Reath, Jens Timmermann, 2010
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Moral
Self-Regard: Duties to Oneself in Kant's Moral Theory
Self-conceit goes dangerously beyond selfishness or rational self-love. Self-
conceit attributes a binding legislative authority to the desires to which
selfishness simply attributes goodness. Self-conceit “decrees the subjective
conditions of ...
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Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals in Focus
The former is called, more particularly, selfishness; the latter, self-conceit. Pure
practical reason merely checks selfishness . . . But it strikes down self-conceit ( Kr
. d. r. V. 76/73). Here self-regard (Selbstmcht) refers to the rationally guided ...
Lawrence Pasternack, 2002
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All Or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and ...
We experience moral constraint, then, in two different forms: the law restricts our
self-love and strikes down our self-conceit, Now we can say that the striking down
of our self-conceit is one feature of the moral consciousness to which we are ...
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The Living Way: Stories of Kurozumi Munetada, a Shinto Founder
1 Contrary to his own wish and promise to Kyoso, Akagi at that time went up
again to a high point of self-conceit and again he lost his eyesight. But as soon as
he remembered Kyoso's instruction to him he repented, full of remorse for his
failure ...
忠明·黒住, Isshi Kohmoto, Willis Stoesz, 2000
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The sermons, and other practical works
The fourth general head of the method was, to speak of the evil of this sin of self-
conceit. We may view this. 1. More generally. 2. More particularly. 1st, We may
view the evil of self-conceit more generally. Where self-conceit is, in its power, it
is ...
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Kant's Critiques: The Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique ...
The former is called particularly selfishness; the latter self-conceit. Pure practical
reason only checks selfishness, looking on it as natural and active in us even
prior to the moral law, so far as to limit it to the condition of agreement with this
law, ...
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Kant Immanuel The Critique of Practical Reason:
self-love. But self-conceit reason strikes down altogether, since all claims to self-
esteem which precede agreement with the moral law are vain and unjustifiable,
for the certainty of a state of mind that coincides with this law is the first condition
...
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English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and ...
Self-will signifies the will in one's self: self-conceit, eoneeit of one's self: self-
sufficiency, sufficiency in one's self. As charaetcrtsticka they come very near to
each other, but that depravity of the will which refuses to submit to any control
either ...
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order
No man had ever a greater power over himselr. or was less themnu he seemed
to be, w hich shortly after appeared to erery body, w hen he cared less to keep on
the mask. Clarendon, SELF-WILL, SELF-CONCEIT, SELF- SUFFICIENCY.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-CONCEIT»
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How About That Rick Perry Speech Bashing Donald Trump?
And beyond that, his self-conceit and hubris is grossly off-putting. A taste: But most telling to me is not Mr. Trump's bombast, his refusal to show any remorse for ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
Stage review: Battle of good vs. evil plays out in family feud within …
... played with sumptuous flourish and self-conceit by Martin Giles in full flower. More sympathetically, there's Trassie's mentally off-center brother, Neelus, whom ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
Review: 'Hot Mikado' turns up the heat on a classic
Was there ever a finer song about self-conceit? Luke Walker, as Nanki-Poo, applies a suave tenor to "Wandering Minstrel." Tyler Pirrung, a nimble jester, ... «Greenville News, Jul 15»
Become teachable
What this great thinker highlighted back then is as true today as it was during his time in the 17th century, when self-conceit was a dominant element in a man ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
In a word: prig
Tobias Smollett writes in 1753: “The templar is generally speaking a prig; so is the abbé: both are distinguished by an air of petulance and self-conceit, which ... «Baltimore Sun, Jun 15»
Here come the ulamas
Perhaps there is only one way we can explain their behavior, that success has brought them self-conceit such that they have surrendered their judgment and ... «Sin Chew Jit Poh, Jun 15»
Reality and Illusion
Any such self-conceit amongst the BJP loyalists now lies shattered on the roads of towns and the fields of villages. The reasons are not far to seek. An old ... «Mainstream, Jun 15»
If I can remove my ego, there's hope for everyone: Kanye West
Rapper Kanye West admits he used to be egoistic in the past and feels if he can drop the sense of self-conceit, it will not be a big deal for anyone else to follow ... «The Indian Express, Mar 15»
[Kim Seong-kon] Social maladies that plague Korean society
They are so intoxicated with self-conceit, smugness and arrogance that they do not realize they could be wrong. It is these self-righteous people who are ... «The Korea Herald, Feb 15»
Amitabh Bachchan: 'I am an ordinary individual just doing a job'
I cannot understand ego - self-importance, self-conceit - I do not have importance, or any indication of my conceit, whatever that word means. "I am but an ... «Digital Spy UK, Jan 15»
