Küçük, Dilara;
(2023)
The Personal Malady of Amour-Propre.
Masters thesis (M.Phil.Stud), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The topic of this thesis is the phenomenon of inflamed amour-propre which is a desire to seek moral superiority or inferiority in the eyes of others. I ask the following research question: What is the main personal malady of inflamed amour-propre? In the first chapter, I investigate the nature of amour-propre to understand the structure of inflamed amour-propre. I introduce the general characteristics of amour-propre and provide an account of amour-propre that explains these general characteristics in terms of three basic desires that constitute amour-propre. In the second chapter, I investigate the moral psychology of amour-propre. I argue that the psychological basis of amour-propre is composed of two beliefs: self-perception and individual worth. Self-perception comes in the form of inflamed self-perception and egalitarian self-perception while individual worth comes in the form of self-worth and conditional worth. I argue that the psychological basis of inflamed amour-propre is the combination of inflamed self-perception and conditional worth. In the third chapter, I investigate the personal malady of inflamed amour-propre within the context of my accounts of the nature of amour-propre and the psychological basis of amour-propre. I argue that the psychological basis of amour-propre and the components of amour-propre are such that they make demands that are unattainable due to the limitations of human nature. When the individual with inflamed amour-propre attempts to pursue these unattainable demands, she denies her own nature and drives herself to a state of inauthenticity which constitutes one of the main personal maladies of inflamed amour-propre. I conclude this thesis with the following answer to my research question: One of the main personal maladies of inflamed amour-propre, which there is a need in the literature to address, is inauthenticity.
| Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Qualification: | M.Phil.Stud |
| Title: | The Personal Malady of Amour-Propre |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| Keywords: | Rousseau, amour-propre, moral psychology, authenticity, inauthenticity, alienation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175824 |
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