TY - JOUR AU - Lorenzo Greco PY - 2019/07/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On Pride JF - HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies JA - HM VL - 12 IS - 35 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/271 AB - In this essay, I offer a vindication of pride. I start by presenting the Christian condemnation of pride as the cardinal sin. I subsequently examine Mandeville’s line of argument whereby pride is beneficial to society, although remaining a vice for the individual. Finally, I focus on, and endorse, the analysis of pride formulated by Hume, for whom pride qualifies instead as a virtue. This is because pride not only contributes to making society flourish but also stabilizes the virtuous agent by creating a virtuous circle between our desire for self-appraisal and our aspiration to act morally. I conclude by underscoring the (virtuous) connection between pride and modesty to the detriment of humility, which should instead be discarded as vicious. ER -