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More on Pride (SB, pp. 215-20)

1.  What is the nature of pride, as More sees it? 

2.  Is pride a function primarily of the intellect or of the imagination or of the emotions? How can one recognize and root out pride?

3.  How might the Greek Plutarch's understanding of our natural susceptibility to self-love be related to More's view of our tendency toward pride?