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From: "Phil Walden" <phil-AT-pwalden.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: BHA: RE: self-love
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:58:21 +0100


Hi Mervyn,

Yoshie has provided chapter and verse on Rousseau's use of "amour de soi"
and "amour propre" in EMILE, and if my memory serves me correctly EMILE is
not the only work of Rousseau's in which they appear.  I am not aware of any
thinker using these terms before Rousseau.  Again, unless my memory is
playing tricks on me, I believe that Marx makes use of this distinction,
though I can't find it.  I am almost certain that these terms do not appear
in BEING AND NOTHINGNESS or the CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON though
whether they feature in some other work of Sartre's I don't know.  I cannot
think of any other theorists who have used these terms but I suspect there
are some.

Amour platonique,

Phil


>
>
> Hi all,
>
> In DPF 164 (and I think elsewhere) Bhaskar makes a distinction between
> 'amour de soi' and 'amour propre', saying "Amour de soi is the basis of
> altruism, while amour propre is intrinsically egoistic". I infer that
> 'amour de soi' is meant to capture the notions of self-empowerment and
> self-esteem, whereas 'amour propre' is narcissistic and infantilist.
>
> Can anyony explain the philosophical provenance of this distinction? I
> have a hunch it's ex Sartre, but am otherwise clueless...
>
> Pardon my ignorance,
>
> Mervyn
>
>
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