Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love: A Thomistic Perspective
Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love: A Thomistic Perspective
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表现性的个人主义和真正的自爱：托马斯主义的观点
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10.1086/488661
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1991
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Stephen J. Pope
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作者：
Stephen J. Pope
《心灵的习惯》一书的合著者罗伯特·贝拉认为，当代北美文化的主要特征之一是对个人自我价值的绝对重视。他们的书的主旨是描述美国个人主义中公共生活和私人生活之间日益扩大的分裂在多大程度上削弱了对共同利益的承诺。美国个人主义的“第一语言”，即人们用来解释他们的生活和愿望的语言，倾向于“鼓励他们只在私人领域寻找意义”，并退出对公共世界的参与在追求这一论题的过程中，他们相当令人信服地表明，在表现性个人主义的“第一语言”中，利他主义、自我牺牲和同情他人等传统美德被赋予了至多次于自我实现、自尊和自我接纳等治疗价值的从属地位。无私的奉献被怀疑会导致自我的丧失。即使在个人生活中，我们也生活在“一个潜在的自我利益冲突的世界”中，因此必须“为自己着想”。的社会
According to Robert Bellah and the coauthors of Habits of the Heart, one of the predominant traits of contemporary North American culture is its unmitigated reference to the value of the individual self.' The burden of their book is to depict the extent to which the growing split between public and private life in American individualism tends to undermine commitment to the common good. The "first languages" of American individualism, that is, the language people use to explain their lives and aspirations, tend to "encourage them to find meaning exclusively in the private sphere" and to withdraw from involvement in the public world.2 In pursuing this thesis they show rather convincingly that, in the "first language" of expressive individualism, the traditional virtues of altruism, selfsacrifice, and sympathy for others have been given at best a subordinate status below the therapeutic values of self-actualization, self-esteem, and self-acceptance. Unselfish devotion is suspected of leading to the loss of self. Even in personal life we live in "a world of potentially conflicting selfinterests"3 and therefore have to "look out for number one." The social