Definition Essay On Pride

Most people don’t have a firm understanding of exactly what pride actually is. This article will be going over exactly how some people view pride under misguidance of perpetual influences. This title was made directly says that enmity is a definition or pride. In this article we will be going over why enmity is one way of looking at pride. Afterwards we will look at two people who to a degree have a correct understanding on this subject manner. Lastly we will be looking at the different faces of pride and how that effects society. What I hope to accomplish through writing this is to help people have a greater understanding of the different contexts of pride. The definition of enmity is, the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. How this relates to pride is it is almost always an in factor in having pride in the negative since. In Jessica L. Tracys and Christine Prehns Arrogant or self-confident? The use of contextual knowledge to differentiate hubristic and authentic pride from a single nonverbal expression they write, “Recent research suggests that pride is conceptualized and experienced as two distinct facets. The first, labelled …show more content…
Since we are mainly focusing on the Hubristic prides side this might just be a good place to start finding stuff that agrees with us. Sadly, however, LaMothe fails to bring validly to the hubristic pride attributes in the ariticle he says, “pride is “good” to the extent that it shores up a sense of self and community and “bad” to the extent “goodness” depends on alienating a person or group.” (LaMothe 240). What we can acknowledge though is it wasn’t his intentions to look at pride in the since of looking at both the good and the bad. But what this quote does help use with is further illustrating the miss use of understand on what pride