Tag: Arrogance

• February 14, 2014

  Arrogance as a paradoxical moment in philosophical life

  One common excess marks the character of most good philosophical friends and conversation partners. That excess is arrogance. The path of philosophical life is not desired by the ignoramus. And it cannot be disclosed to the self-loathing man. Nor to the complacent man. Only the arrogant man (1) relishes what is higher, (2) wants it for…
• July 16, 2012

  What makes it impossible to become a beautiful soul

  Let’s suppose we spend our days exercising many of the virtues. They may include  fidelity, courage, patience, and so on. I am curious how it is that the prominence of one salient vice such as arrogance can throw a person’s demeanor into disharmony and thereby make it impossible for him to become a beautiful soul.…
• January 18, 2012

  Being arrogant got me halfway…

  “To live an examined life is to make a self-portrait.” –Robert Nozick, The Examined Life Being arrogant got me halfway to where I am today. Becoming humble got me the rest of the way. Being humble put me onto a different way. But arrogance, strange to say, was a saving grace for a young boy…