Editing Pride (section)

== Ancient Greek philosophy ==
Aristotle identified pride ({{transliteration|grc|megalopsuchia}}, variously translated as proper pride, the greatness of soul and magnanimity)<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Nicomachean Ethics]]|author=[[Aristotle]]|at=[https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/f-h-peters/text/book-4#chapter-4-1-2 IV.2–3]}}</ref> as the crown of the virtues, distinguishing it from vanity, temperance and humility, thus:
{{blockquote|By a high-minded man we seem to mean one who claims much and deserves much: for he who claims much without deserving it is a fool; but the possessor of a virtue is never foolish or silly. The man we have described, then, is high-minded. He who deserves little and claims little is temperate [or modest], but not high-minded: for high-mindedness [or greatness of soul] implies greatness, just as beauty implies stature; small men may be neat and well proportioned, but cannot be called beautiful.<ref name=TNE4.3>{{cite book|title=[[Nicomachean Ethics]]|author=[[Aristotle]]|at=[https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/f-h-peters/text/book-4#chapter-4-1-3 IV.3]}}</ref>}}

He then concludes that,
{{blockquote|High-mindedness, then, seems to be the crowning grace, as it were, of the virtues; it makes them greater, and cannot exist without them. And on this account it is a hard thing to be truly high-minded; for it is impossible without the union of all the virtues.{{r|TNE4.3}} }}

By contrast, Aristotle defined the vice of hubris as follows:
{{blockquote|to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: naive men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Aristotle]]|title=[[Rhetoric (Aristotle)|Rhetoric]]|at=[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0060%3Abekker+page%3D1378b 1378b]}}</ref>}}

Thus, although pride and hubris are often deemed the same thing, for Aristotle and many philosophers hubris is an entirely different thing from pride.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hubris Greek Mythology {{!}} Definition, Examples & Use |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/greek-hubris-definition-examples-quiz.html |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=study.com}}</ref>