self-love的表现有很多种:固执己见、自以为是、自视清高、自私自利、孤芳自赏、傲慢无礼、掠夺侵略、一切以自我为中心。
我的理解是self-love未必是罪恶,但它是罪恶的根由。
Helen Keller随后写道:
Then, again, La Fontaine seldom, if ever, appeals to our highest moral sense. The highest chords he strikes are those of reason and self-love. Through all the fables runs the thought that mans morality springs wholly from self-love, and that if that self-love is directed and restrained by reason, happiness must follow. Now, so far as I can judge, self-love is the root of all evil; but, of course, I may be wrong, for La Fontaine had greater opportunities of observing men than I am likely ever to have. I do not object so much to the cynical and satirical fables as to those in which momentous truths are taught by monkeys and foxes. |