Why We Sometimes Enjoy Pity and How to Stop - Tiny Buddha
Pity is a form of external validation that is based off feelings of inferiority. The desire for external validation and the internal lack of self-esteem is a serious one-two punch knocking down our happiness levels. How does this sort of behavior start? What is the original cause? Why do we think this negative external validation is a good thing?
Nietzsche on Pity. Pity…is a depressant. A man loses power
2018年4月15日 · “Pity, insofar as it induces suffering,…is a weakness as is any [one] losing oneself to a harmful affect”: Here, he asserts that Pity massages, strokes, and caters to the trouble or difficulty,...
The Psychology of Pity - Dr. Hurd
2011年5月2日 · Pity is based on the premise: “Your vulnerability allows me an opportunity to be superior.” The person feeling pity for another is not doing the object of the pity any favors. Why do you think that most people don’t want to be pitied?
How Brandon Sanderson Writes Characters : r/Fantasy - Reddit
2020年11月15日 · Maron Shed is probably the most pity inducing character I've ever encountered. I've never felt so viscerally understanding and sad for a book character before. The guy can barely manage to be an inn-keeper, can barely manage being a person, and then is called on to be an adventurer instead.
Subversive Laughter in Reynard the Fox - Blog of the APA
2018年6月13日 · Violence follows directly on from the pity-inducing, beautifully constructed narrative. The lion asks Reynard to show him the gold, but Reynard says he cannot do so because he must go on pilgrimage to Rome to confess his sins.
Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy
φόβος and ἔλεος, pity and fear, are famously (or notoriously) associated with tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics. As the “proper pleasure” of tragedy, they are importantly connected to ancient understandings of the genre and of the emotional response to works of art, yet their precise meaning, their linkage to one another, and ...
Pity is an emotion easy to scorn but central to our humanity
2021年6月15日 · Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives a depressive and questionable character to life itself by keeping alive an abundance of failures of every type.
The Psychology of Pity (and Why It Matters More Than You Think)
2023年2月1日 · Pity is the emotional effect of thinking about someone’s loss or misfortune. Now, as a result of feeling pity, you’re motivated to reach into your wallet, pull out some cash, and hand it to them. You also awkwardly mumble out some …
The Perils of Pity - by Caitlin Schneider - Discourse Blog
2022年5月6日 · Pity and self-pity are impulses that are rooted in the desire for connection, but they end up functioning as a way of distancing ourselves from others, quite often out of basic self-preservation and delusion. They fly in the face of the most necessary and powerful tool in the movement against forces of patriarchy, totalitarianism, and dystopia ...
The Jokers – New York Review Books
Cossery's use of irony is one of the most powerful and pity-inducing to be found in any literature East or West, old or new. It is an irony so fierce, an anger so sharply muted by inversion of sarcasm and disgust that it makes the reader's hair stand on end with guilty compassion.