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utility and social sympathy and utility.”58 Hence, negative self-love, far-off from humanity’s principle, then lingers in feelings of subjectivity while positive self-love always delights in inter-subjectivity.
Subjectivity Self-approbation and Utility
Positive self-love
Self-Love and Virtue
Inter-subjectivity
corresponds with
Objectivity
Social approbation and Utility
(cheerfulness, courage, philosophical contemplation and benevolence, modest peace,
+ those that sublimiate spirit, ennoble the mind AFFECT US
always mirrors
Principle of Humanity:59
Natural Principle of Sympathy that opts for social welfare, promotes
harmony and order in society. MISERY AND WELFARE OF OTHERS
Arouses impartial, universal sentiments given P of Humanity
generally mirrors
* triggers Social Deference and/or Hatred when touches Principle of Humanity
Negative self-love
Social Indifference
(avarice, ambition and vanity, enmity, antagonism)
(THE HEROIC ENEMY)
Self-Love and Vice
Subjectivity
Whatever touches one’s humanity, consequently, procures mass applause because it affects the same principle. In other words, one’s humanity will agree to any conduct of any man, anywhere, anytime that has a beneficial tendency.60 Similarly, any man who is so far removed to neither serve or disapprove my self-interests is indifferent to one’s passions. “What serves one’s [my] own avarice or ambition pleases oneself [me] alone, it affects not the avarice and ambition of the masses.”61 The particular sentiments of self-love are
58 Virtue Ethics. Section 223. 97
59The conventional, social virtues of justice, fidelity, honor, veracity, allegiance, benevolence, generosity, lenity, gratitude, moderation, friendship are inseparable from humanity. Section 7. 87
60 Ibid. Section 223. 97
61 Ibid. Section 223. 97
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