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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENVY Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always warranted? In this book, Sara Protasi argues that envyismoremultifacetedthanitseems,andthatsomevarietiesofit can be productive and even virtuous. Protasi brings together empir- ical evidence and philosophical research to generate a novel view according to which there are four kinds of envy: emulative, inert, aggressive, and spiteful. For each kind, she individuates different situational antecedents, phenomenological expressions, motivational tendencies,andbehavioraloutputs.Shethendevelopsthenormative implications of this taxonomy from amoral and prudential perspec- tive, in the domain of personal loving relationships, and in the political sphere. A historical appendix completes the book. Through a careful and comprehensive investigation of envy’s com- plexity, and its multifarious implications for human relations and human value, The Philosophy of Envy surprisingly reveals that envy plays a crucial rolein safeguardingourhappiness. isAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversity of Puget Sound. She has published essays on love, envy, beauty, pornography,and pedagogy. THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENVY SARA PROTASI UniversityofPugetSound UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitofeducation, learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©SaraProtasi Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Protasi,Sara,–author. :Thephilosophyofenvy/SaraProtasi,UniversityofPugetSound,Washington. :Cambridge;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Envy.|Ethics.|Socialpsychology. :.(print)|.E(ebook)|/.– LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For M and m, amori della mamma: may you learn to love and envy well. 我的寶貝 “ ” For Shen-yi, : words cannot describe. Contents List of Figures page ix List of Tables x Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Sidelong Gaze What Is Envy? . Introduction:TwoDifferentGreen-EyedMonsters . EnvyandJealousyasRivalrousEmotions . ToLackortoLose,ThatIstheQuestion . Complications:Ambiguous,Hybrid,andTransitionalScenarios . WhatIsEnvy,Then?ADefinition Varieties of Envy . Introduction:EnvyIsSaidinManyWays . WhatDoesEnvyDo?LevelingUpandLevelingDown . TheVariablesofEnvy:FocusofConcernandPerceived ObtainabilityoftheGood . TheVarietiesofEnvy The Value of Envy . Introduction:IsEnvyGuiltyasCharged? . Preliminaries . “ItShouldHaveBeenMe!” . “ItShouldBeMe!” . “ItCouldHaveBeenMe!” . “ItCouldBeMe!” . OntologyandNormativityComingTogether . EmulativeEnvyasaVirtuousEmotion . TowardaTheoryofRemediesofEnvy Love and Envy, Two Sides of the Same Coin . Introduction:LoveDoesNotEnvy,OrDoesIt? . Preliminaries:Love,Envy,andTwoKindsofIncompatibility vii viii Contents . Comparison,Similarity,andDesireforEsteem:WhereLove andEnvyThrive . InPraiseofEnvyingtheBeloved Political Envy . Introduction:EnvyasaPoliticalEmotion? . TheRhetoricofClassEnvyandEnviousEgalitarianism . EnvyandPrejudice . VarietiesofPoliticalEnvy . TamingtheGreen-EyedMonsters Conclusion: Envy and Human Goodness Appendix In the Beginning Was Phthonos: A Short History of Envy A. Introduction:EnvyinWesternHistoryofPhilosophy A. EnvyasaPathosintheAncientGreekTradition A. EnvyasaSininChristianandIslamicThought A. EnvyintheModernEra A. EnvyinJohnRawls References Index Figures . Varieties of envy page . Gabriele Taylor’s taxonomy ix
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