Posts Tagged ‘Seven Deadly Vices’

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Master Vice: Hypocrisy

by Awet on May 14, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Posted In: History of Ideas, miscellanea, Sartre, Schopenhauer

In this blog I will analyze how hypocrisy is a master vice that includes three of the new seven deadly vices - humility, self-deception and prudery.

Hypocrisy is the respect vice pays virtue. – La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is essentially an action where one pretends to hold clear and recognized set of values or attitudes but actually doesn’t. Despite choosing vice, the hypocrite understands that virtue is superior and assumes its facade. Therefore, the hypocrite is not being dishonest about good or evil, but rather himself. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Master Vice: Intolerance

by Awet on April 11, 2012 at 12:56 am
Posted In: miscellanea, Philosophy, Psychology

Intolerance by Phil Mulloy (2000)

The original seven deadly vices had two subdivisions: spiritual (pride, envy, wrath) and corporal (sloth, greed, gluttony and lust). After listing the new seven deadly vices, I began to reconsider them as a whole and realized that they should reflect some fundamental opposites or antitheses. I decided on two master vices: Intolerance and Hypocrisy. In a sense, intolerance is opposed to hypocrisy because the intolerant rejects external difference, while the hypocrite denies or conceals one’s own difference. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Boredom

by Awet on March 20, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Posted In: miscellanea, Nietzsche
New Seven Deadly Vices: Boredom

Bored? by Urko Dorronsoro

There are two aspects of boredom: Kurzeweile (short while) and Langeweile (long while).

Langeweile is the condition of modernity and one isn’t held accountable for being born in a certain epoch. However kurzeweile is a response to a short stretch of time where nothing happens. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Self-Deception

by Awet on March 17, 2012 at 12:20 am
Posted In: Existentialism, miscellanea, Sartre

 

Masks of deception

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves from other people that in the end we disguise ourselves from ourselves.” La Rochefoucauld

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Humility

by Awet on March 8, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Posted In: Philosophy

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Humility is often just a feigned submissiveness employed to dominate others. It is a stratagem of pride, which lowers itself that it may raise itself; and though pride wears a thousand masks, it is never better disguised than when it wears the mask of humility itself. — La Rochefoucauld ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Prudery

by Awet on February 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
Posted In: miscellanea

“Prudery is a kind of avarice — the worst of them all.” – Stendhal

More than just the enemy of sexual pleasure, the prude is the anti-hedonist, the fundamentalist who takes certain moral values as absolute in themselves — a self-styled champion of propriety who cannot and will not accept basic truths of human nature. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Mediocrity

by Awet on February 11, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Posted In: Existentialism, miscellanea, Nietzsche
New Seven Deadly Vices: Mediocrity

Self-explanatory

One of the laziest things in life is copying something or being a copy of an original. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Seriousness

by Awet on February 9, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: miscellanea

Why, indeed?

In other words: Earnest. Sincere. Pompous. Grave. Boring. Complacent. Smug. Self-righteous. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New Seven Deadly Vices: Ignorance

by Awet on February 7, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Posted In: miscellanea

I thought it would be illuminating to list the vices that were, in my book, much worse than the traditional seven deadly sins. They are the result of a perspective fueled by the vicissitudes of postmodern culture – one that absorbs and progresses past the traditions of Christianity and the tenets of modernity.

Ignorance 

by Bill Watterson

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