From: k_aegis@mindspring.com
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 14:41:51 MDT
Lee Crocker Daniels writes:
>Arrogance is harmless folly; it is rigidity that gets in the way of >learning and growing.
In some philosophical frameworks, particularly Taoism, arrogance is viewed as an element of personality that clouds understanding and creates blocks to greater understanding of oneself and others. Both rigidity and arrogance reflect the needs of the human ego. Sublimating one's ego results in a clearing away of that cloudiness and a freeing of the intellect.
Whether or not one accepts Taoist analysis, this also relates to your earlier statements regarding evolving away from emotions. Shifting away from philosophy into psychology, we find that arrogance represents an emotional response, listed alongside fear, envy, affection, and all the other emotions. If you have truly committed to evolving past emotional responses and frameworks, you may have to relinquish this particular folly at some point.
Kathryn Aegis
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