2 thoughts on ““You are so selfish” (Passive-aggressive humor)”
Edward Fox
And here I thought I was going to have a good day…
(Hey how come Jesus doesn’t have blue eyes and blond hair in this depiction? As everyone knows Nordic types were very prevalent in the Levantine Semitic society of the time).
Edward Fox
“[Morality excludes] self-interest in the widest sense of the term” declared Arthur Schopenhauer in ‘On the Basis of Morality’, “The absence of all egoistic motivation is, therefore, the criterion of an action of moral worth.” “The noble type of consciousness”, declared Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “…assumes a negative attitude towards its own special purposes, its particular content and individual existence, and lets them disappear. This type of mind is the heroism of Service.”
If charged by a moralist of this persuasion that I am motivated by self interest I will have to answer: you’d better believe it. I can deal with a person who has the honesty and courage of their interests; I can do little for the person who pretends not to have any. And it’s not the former I fear.
And here I thought I was going to have a good day…
(Hey how come Jesus doesn’t have blue eyes and blond hair in this depiction? As everyone knows Nordic types were very prevalent in the Levantine Semitic society of the time).
“[Morality excludes] self-interest in the widest sense of the term” declared Arthur Schopenhauer in ‘On the Basis of Morality’, “The absence of all egoistic motivation is, therefore, the criterion of an action of moral worth.” “The noble type of consciousness”, declared Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “…assumes a negative attitude towards its own special purposes, its particular content and individual existence, and lets them disappear. This type of mind is the heroism of Service.”
If charged by a moralist of this persuasion that I am motivated by self interest I will have to answer: you’d better believe it. I can deal with a person who has the honesty and courage of their interests; I can do little for the person who pretends not to have any. And it’s not the former I fear.