Assertion: amour propre | /r/HasProperty | relative
Facets:
value: to others
type: OTHER
value: secondly
type: DEGREE
value: in this second sense
type: OTHER
value: in two respects
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Amour-propre is said to be not only relative but also ‘artificial’ (factice), in contrasts to amour de soi, a ‘natural’ sentiment.
text: Neuhouser's proposal takes its orientation from Rousseau's claim that amour-propre is a "relative sentiment".
text: amour-propre is relative in two respects …
text: Secondly, amour-propre is relative to other subjects in the further sense that, since the good it seeks is recognition from others, its satisfaction requires -- indeed consists in -- the opinions of one's fellow beings.
text: Amour-propre is relative in this second sense, then, because its aim -- recognition from others -- is inherently social in character.
text: Because 'amour-propre is [...] a sentiment that is relative' (that is, relative to other subjects), both the desire for respect and esteem can therefore be said to constitute amour-propre.
text: (Amour propre is relative to others because it compares one's own standing with that of others and because what it seeks is standing in the eyes of others.)
text: Amour-propre is merely a sentiment that is relative,” he says, “artificial and born in society which moves each individual to value himself more than anyone else, which inspired in men all the evils they cause one another and which is the true source of honor.
text: Rousseau uses Hobbes in a way to prove his own point, that amour-propre, vanity, is not a natural sentiment but, as he says in that passage I just read, a sentiment that is relative and artificial, could only have come into being once we enter society in some ways.