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Article: JANE AUSTEN AND THE SIN OF PRIDE.
- Article from:
- Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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All (four heroines) realize that the cause of deception lay within; Catherine, that she had brought to the Abbey a mind "craving to be frightened," Marianne, that "her own feelings had prepared her sufferings," Elizabeth, that she has "courted ignorance," and "driven reason away," Emma, that she has been practising deceptions on herself.
--C. S. Lewis (qtd. in Watt: 27)
The problem is to accommodate inside moral philosophy, and suggest methods of dealing with the fact that so much of human conduct is moved by mechanical energy of an egocentric kind. In the moral life the enemy is the fat relentless ego. Moral philosophy is properly, and in the past ...