Rousseau distinguished two forms of self-love, amour de soi and amour-propre.
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If our egos are obese with amour-propre, social media can indeed serve up the empty emotional carbs we crave.
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The 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote about "amour-propre," a kind of self-love based on the opinions of others.
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The pages have been decorated with 70 or so rumpled self-portraits (the singer's amour propre came streaked in self-loathing), with a dozen amateurish doodles of young women thrown in.
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Like the California task force, Rousseau thought that amour-propre was a necessary ingredient of amity and a fulfilled life, though he was also keenly aware of the destructive vanity to which it could give rise.
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Partly out of institutional habit, partly out of amour propre, and partly out of fear of seeing its power slip, the United States has had its own issues with nationalism, even before Trump came blundering onto the scene.
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The tearing hot pain, every time she put her weight on it, seemed inseparable from her injured amour propre—she couldn't bear the picture of her own foolishness, the idiotic ugliness of her stumbling sideways, hanging on to strangers.
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Although it is easy to read too much into the British vote (disconnection from the E.U. will be a lengthy process), there is little doubt that national amour propre, misty with old glories and smarting from old wounds, is back in vogue.
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During the first 20 minutes on Wednesday, Trump was remarkable sober—sedate, even—but Clinton quickly provoked his easily wounded amour propre by bringing up Trump's praise for Putin and the claims by intelligence agencies that the Wikileaks revelations about her email probably came from Russian government hacking.
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Displaying an amour propre that appeared to know little bounds, Proust cited a review by his friend, the painter Jacques Émile-Blanche, who had lauded "Swann's Way" as a "little masterpiece" and had written that "like a gust of wind blows away the soporific vapors" of the other works available on the literary marketplace.
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At the same time, his vanity and amour propre, joined to his rage against his doubters, makes it impossible for Trump to admit that anyone else helped him win the White House — so he cannot bring himself to fully acknowledge and criticize Russian election meddling because to do so might call into question not only his legitimacy but his self-conception as a political grandmaster.
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But amid the shambolic style of Joe Biden's front-running campaign to date, the flip-flops and apparent gaffes, it's possible to discern a certain method, a general plan for how the candidate hopes to run for president: by changing positions on issues when he needs to, but without betraying his own amour-propre, his sense of what being Joe Biden is supposed to mean.
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Amour-propre (French, literally "self-love"). By definition amour-propre means loving oneself, whereas in philosophy it is a debated theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that esteem must be found by the approval of others first. Rousseau contrasts it with amour de soi, which also means "self-love", but which does not involve seeing oneself as others see one. According to Rousseau, amour de soi is more primitive and is compatible with wholeness and happiness, while amour-propre is an unnatural form of self-love that arose only with the appearance of society and individuals' consequent ability to compare themselves with one another.
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Rousseau thought that amour-propre was subject to corruption, thereby causing vice and misery.Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The term amour-propre predates Rousseau and is found in the writings of Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Pierre Nicole, Jacques Abbadie and many others.L'amour-propre at Everything2.com Pascal detested self-love, self-esteem, ego, vanity as well perhaps, which are interchangeable terms for him, because it puts the self in the place of God.
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O. Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 298 and p. 559 Lacan highlighted the role of amour propre in the hatred of being helped by any outside force.J. Lacan, Écrits (1997) p.
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He suggested it was unfair that we are born with the desire to be loved by others, but unavoidable due to the consequence of the Fall, or original sin. Christianity was the only true remedy to this wretched state of man known as amour-propre.
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Thus wounded in his amour-propre, Victor now transferred his allegiance to the Bourbon dynasty, and in December 1814 received from Louis XVIII the command of the second military division. In 1815, on the return of Napoleon from exile in Elba Victor accompanied the king to Ghent.
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Poujoulat, p. 428. Louis XVIII dealt another blow to Cardinal Maury's prestige and amour propre. On 28 March 1816, he issued a royal ordonnance, restoring the pre-revolutionary titles and structure of France's academies, and adding lists of members.Recueil général annoté des lois, decrets, ordonnances, etc.
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It was a product of the Lohr Mirror Manufacture (Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur). The mirror “talked” predominantly in aphorisms. The upper right corner of “The Talking Mirror” contains a clear reference to self-love (Amour Propre). Moreover, mirrors from Lohr were so elaborately worked that they were accorded the reputation of “always speaking the truth”.
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Typically in the analysis of the malignant narcissist, "the patient attempts to triumph over the analyst by destroying the analysis and himself or herself"—an extreme version of what Jacques Lacan described as "that resistance of the amour-propre...which is often expressed thus: 'I can't bear the thought of being freed by anyone other than myself'".
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Amour de soi represents the instinctive human desire for self-preservation, combined with the human power of reason. In contrast, amour-propre is artificial and encourages man to compare himself to others, thus creating unwarranted fear and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness of others. Rousseau was not the first to make this distinction. It had been invoked by Vauvenargues, among others.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) believed there were two kinds of self-love. One was "amour de soi" (French for "love of self") which is the drive for self- preservation. Rousseau considered this drive to be the root of all human drives. The other was "amour-propre" (often also translated as "self-love", but which also means "pride"), which refers to the self-esteem generated from being appreciated by other people.
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118 French General Juin arrived the next day at Alexander's headquarters in order to clear up any misunderstanding. It was agreed that the French would immediately withdraw from Val d'Aosta and Susa but would delay their withdrawal from Tende in order to save face because a hasty withdrawal would be most hurtful to French amour-propre. The last French soldiers withdrew from Ventimiglia a month later. This was the final act of the Italian campaign.
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"memory aid"; an object or memorandum to assist in remembrance, or a diplomatic paper proposing the major points of discussion ; amour propre: "Self-love", Self-respect. ; amuse-bouche or amuse-gueule: lit. "mouth- amuser"; a single, bite-sized hors d'œuvre. In France, the exact expression used is amuse-gueule, gueule being slang for mouth (gueule is the mouth of a carnivorous animal; when used to describe the mouth of a human, it is vulgar), although the expression in itself is not vulgar.
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These include a sense of self, morality, pity, and imagination. Rousseau's writings are purposely ambiguous concerning the formation of these processes to the point that mediation is always intrinsically part of humanity's development. An example of this is the notion that as an individual, one needs an alternative perspective to come to the realization that they are a 'self'. In Rousseau's philosophy, society's negative influence on men centers on its transformation of amour de soi, a positive self-love, into amour-propre, or pride.
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Gilbert Achcar, referring to this meeting with Himmler, observes: >> >>> The Mufti was well aware that the European Jews were being wiped out; he never claimed the contrary. Nor, unlike some of his present-day admirers, did he play the ignoble, perverse, and stupid game of Holocaust denial... . His amour-propre would not allow him to justify himself to the Jews... .gloating that the Jews had paid a much higher price than the Germans... he cites... : "Their losses in the Second World War represent more than thirty percent of the total number of their people ...".
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Commenting on Benson's decision to satirize him as "Chris Dell" in The Sentimentalists, Rolfe wrote, "You are worrying yourself most unnecessarily about me, I assure you... I am laughing at the absurdity of the whole thing though I must confess that I was rather amazed when I heard that everybody recognized me in Chris. It was rather a blow to my amour propre... You will, I hope, reap a rich harvest of shekels from the transaction, and the world will forget The Sentimentalists when it stands wondering before The Lord of the World."Martindale (1916), Volume 2, page 57.
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The major themes of philosophical pessimism were first presented by Rousseau and he has been called "the patriarch of pessimism". For Rousseau, humans in their "natural goodness" have no sense of self-consciousness in time and thus are happier than humans corrupted by society. Rousseau saw the movement out of the state of nature as the origin of inequality and mankind's lack of freedom. The wholesome qualities of man in his natural state, a non-destructive love of self and compassion are gradually replaced by amour propre, a self-love driven by pride and jealousy of his fellow man.
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Hedda, beautiful daughter of the late General Gabler, returns from her honeymoon with scholar husband Jorgen to confront the boredom and banality of married life. Although she has little more than amused contempt for her husband, she is pregnant by him and is revolted by the thought of carrying his child and the changes that motherhood will impose upon her future. When the re-appearance of an old flame of hers threatens both Jorgen's career prospects and her own amour propre, Hedda contrives to bring about Lovborg's destruction but, in the process, also brings about her own.
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It is related to an awareness of one's future and can restrain present impulse. Rousseau contrasts it with amour-propre, that kind of self-love, found in Thomas Hobbes' philosophy, in which one's opinion of oneself is dependent on what other people think and which arises only with society. Rousseau suggested that amour de soi was lost during the transition from the pre-societal condition to society, but it can be restored by the use of "good" institutions created with the social contract. This renewed passage from the state of nature to the civilized state, would bring man to favor justice instead of instinct.
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Self-love defined as "love of self" or "regard for one's own happiness or advantage" has both been conceptualized as a basic human necessityMaslow's hierarchy of needs and as a moral flaw, akin to vanity and selfishness,B. Kirkpatrick (ed.), Roget's Thesaurus (1998), pp. 592 and 639 synonymous with amour propre, conceit, conceitedness, egotism, et al. However, throughout the centuries self-love has adopted a more positive connotation through pride parades, Self Respect Movement, self-love protests, the hippie era, the New Age feminist movement as well as the increase in mental health awareness that promotes self-love as intrinsic to self-help and support groups working to prevent substance abuse and suicide.
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York Racecourse, where Borderlescott won his second Nunthorpe Stakes Borderlescott began his 2009 campaign on 2 May in the Palace House Stakes at Newmarket and finished third behind Amour Propre and Hoh Hoh Hoh. Later that month he started 2/1 favourite for the Temple Stakes, but in a three-way photo-finish he was beaten a neck by Look Busy, with Wid Dud a head away in third. At Royal Ascot in June he started at odds of 10/1 for the King's Stand Stakes and finished fifth of the fifteen runners behind the Australian gelding Scenic Blast. On 11 July Borderlescott was dropped in class for the Listed City Walls Stakes over five furlongs at Chester and started 6/5 favourite.
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Beverley Racecourse, where Borderlescott won his last big race As an eight-year-old in 2010, Borderlescott finished second to Equiano in the Palace House Stakes and third to Kingsgate Native in the Temple Stakes before finishing third to Equiano and Markab in the King's Stand Stakes. He then started odds on favourite for the City Wall Stakes but finished third, beaten a hort head and a neck by Blue Jack and Captain Dunne. Kieren Fallon took the ride when the gelding started 9/2 favourite for the King George Stakes at Goodwood on 29 July. Captain Dunne, Amour Propre and Moorhouse Lad were in the field as well as the Todd Pletcher-trained American mare Starish Bay, and the improving handicappers Astrophysical Jet and Tropical Treat.
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Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary (1998) Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (2000) Love is considered to be a positive and negative: with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"; and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as it potentially leads people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency.
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The above events are the background to the story, revealed throughout the novel from the point in which Giacinto, Lia's son, comes to the Pintor house. The narration begins years later, when the no longer young Pintor ladies (Ruth, Ester and Noemi) live in a by then crumbling house and are still the owners of a small estate, barely sufficient to their maintenance. Their existences pass in a mournful sadness that is overthrowing their pride and amour propre, sometimes seen in Noemi's behavior but very seldom in her elder sisters', who are worn out because of misery. Their servant Efix (from Ephysius, the name of the patron saint of Cagliari) is attached to them by a strong guilt trip (in effect, he had killed Don Zame to help Lia, for whom he had a feeling really similar to love).
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A notice in the Times shows that his advice was taken seriously. David Christie Murray, one of the leaders of the pro-Dreyfus movement in England, mentioned O'Rell's letter and announced a withdrawal of an appeal to French journalists, because it might offend the French amour-propre. At the height of the Fashoda crisis a short time later, the London Times published a letter by O'Rell to the editor in which he presented himself as a member of the Committee of the Entente Cordiale for the Better Relations between England and France and argued that despite the current tensions, the relations between Britain and France had a solid basis of respect and goodwill. He also commented on the Boer War, but his critical comments about Boers' brave resistance to the English Goliath led to a marked decline of his popularity in Britain.
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Equiano began his fourth season in the Abernant Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket on 15 April in which he was ridden by Michael Hills (as in all of his races that year) and started the 11/4 favourite. After taking the lead soon after the start he was hard-pressed in the closing stages and "just held on" to win by a short-head from the four-year-old Mullionmileanhour and record his first success for 22 months. In the Group Three Palace House Stakes at the same course on 1 May he started second favourite behind the 2009 winner Amour Propre in a field which also included Borderlescott, Sole Power and Total Gallery (Prix de l'Abbaye). Equiano led from the start and "stayed on gamely" to beat Borderlescott by three quarters of a length.
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He started well but then lost his position and looked unlikely to obtain a clear run at half way before accelerating in the straight, taking the lead inside the final furlong and winning by a length and a neck from Captain Gerrard and Hoh Hoh Hoh. At Goodwood, Borderlescott started favourite for the King George Stakes but looked to be outpaced in the closing stages and finished fourth behind Kingsgate Native, Total Gallery and Inxile. It was Cosgrave's last ride on the gelding, with Neil Callan taking over when Borderlescott attempted to repeat his 2008 success in the Nunthorpe Stakes on 21 August. He was the 9/1 fourth choice in the betting behind Kingsgate Native, Radiohead (Norfolk Stakes) and Amour Propre, whilst the other runners included Tax Free (Prix du Gros Chêne, Prix du Petit Couvert), Dandy Man, Ialysos (Coral Charge), Equiano, Art Connoisseur (Golden Jubilee Stakes), Look Busy, Moorhouse Lad, Benbaun, Captain Gerrard and the South African challenger Mythical Flight.
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