http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins
Envy (Latin, invidia) Main article: Envy Like greed, envy may be characterized by an insatiable desire; they differ, however, for two main reasons. First, greed is largely associated with material goods, whereas envy may apply more generally. Second, those who commit the sin of envy resent that another person has something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the other person to be deprived of it. Dante defined this as "love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire, because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low. Aquinas described envy as "sorrow for another's good". [1]
>>> Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> 09/30/2008 9:01 AM >>>
To some extent, methinks Nietzsche was onto something with the idea of ressentiment. "She has more stuff than I do -- she's a bad person!"
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
>
> "It would be instructive to refer here to Rousseau,
> who described the
> inversion of the libidinal investment from the object to
> the obstacle
> which prevent our access to the object. This is why
> egalitarianism itself
> should never be accepted at face value: the notion (and
> practice) of
> egalitarian justice, insofar as it is sustained by envy,
> relies on the
> inversion of the standard renunciation accomplished to
> benefit others: "I
> am ready to renounce it, so that others will (also) not (be
> able to ) have
> it!"
>
> Far from being opposed to the spirit of sacrifice, Evil is
> thus the very
> spirit of sacrifice itself, ready to ignore one's own
> wellbeing -- if,
> through my sacrifice, I can deprive the Other of his
> 'jouissance'... And
> do we not encounter the same negative passion also in
> politically correct
> multicultural liberalism? Is its inquisitorial pursuit of
> the traces of
> racism and sexism in the details of personal behavior not
> in itself
> indicative of the passion of resentment?
> Fundamentalism's passion is a
> false one, while anemic liberal tolerance relies on a
> disavowed perverse
> passion. The distinction between fundamentalism and
> liberalism is
> sustained by a shared underlying feature: they are both
> permeated by the
> negative passion of resentment."
>
> Zizek, p 333 _In Defnese of Lost Causes_ from the chapter,
> "Why Populism
> is Good Enough In Practice".
>
>
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