Did you come to a conclusion as to whether pride is a sin or not? So, since I had been thinking about that subject and writing about it in a variety of guises over the years, I felt this was a natural thing for me to do.ĬONAN: And in the process of writing this book, you identify all these different kinds of pride, and you've just listed a few. and to speak about pride in family, and pride in nation, and pride in community and tribe in nuanced and a complex fashion. How come?īecause I had been thinking about pride in a number of venues and a number of different faces, so to speak, with a number of intentions, not the least of which was the ability to talk about black pride. Professor MICHAEL ERIC DYSON (Author, 'Pride'): It's good to be here, brother Neal.ĬONAN: Why, when this series was proposed, you write that you really had to have pride. He's also an ordained Baptist minister, and he joins us now from the studios of member station WHYY in Philadelphia, undoubtedly with snowy shoes. Our e-mail address is critic and writer Michael Eric Dyson is professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Is it a virtue, or a vice? Is it an engine of excellent or the onramp to the road to perdition? If you have questions about individual pride, collective pride, black pride, white pride, give us a call.

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Pride is self-respect and self-esteem, he says, but then warns that pride is arrogance and hubris as well. It's author reminds us that he has a lot to be proud of, his teachers, his family, the books he's read and written. The complexities and ambiguities of pride form the final installment in a series of short books presented by the Oxford University Press and the New York Public Library. Of all the deadly sins, writes Michael Eric Dyson, pride is most likely to stir debate about whether it's a sin at all. But then there's parental pride, pride in one's work, pride for your school or your city or your country. Lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony and sloth are all bad, the sages say, but pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin. Of the seven deadly sins, theologians and philosophers reserve a special place for pride.

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