What is envy? -- Varieties of envy -- The value of envy -- Love and envy, two sides of the same coin -- Political envy. "The first memory I have of reflecting philosophically about envy is from when I was about 10 years old. I remember walking in the...
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What is envy? -- Varieties of envy -- The value of envy -- Love and envy, two sides of the same coin -- Political envy. "The first memory I have of reflecting philosophically about envy is from when I was about 10 years old. I remember walking in the garden of my church before Confession. That year I was preparing for my First Communion, and I was a very conscientious believer who did her spiritual homework. I must have been told about the seven deadly sins at Sunday school, and I recall marveling at how envy could be in the same list as gluttony or vanity. Envy was clearly The Worst Thing Ever. So shameful, so painful-nothing else was as bad in my eyes. Envy was both the only of those sins worth to confess, and the hardest one to"--
