Self-Esteem Is The Best Love

 

Self-Esteeming is the best and highest form of love. I have been looking for ways to justify me advancement of egoist ethics, and a flash came to me the other day, an insight which might be fruitful.

 

It occurred to me that egoism as a moral system is built on the principle of veridical self-esteeming and positive self-loving.

 

 Now all words, all concepts, all definitions are never 100% cqpture the whole gist of a concept: linguistic clarity is never perfect or final. My near final word about self-love, on describing or defining any idea or term of self-love, it seems to me, that positive love, whether focused on the self, on others, on nature, on animals, or towards God or one’s family, is likely the intellectual and emotional way to regard the object of affection, and nothing can be more wholesome than loving. This is spiritual and moral goodness. If one loves the self, then love will be one’s good will in action as the self operates in the world and interacts with others.

 

The counterpart of positive loving is negative hating, where the self-consciousness is focused, determined, and systematically attacking, deconstructing and destroying, perhaps even physically killing off the victim, be that victim the self, one’s spouse or partner, one’s dog, one’s nation, one’s God, or nature itself. This is the essence of spiritual and moral evil enveloping the hater’s consciousness.

 

When I promote moral egoism, I am urging the self be the primary but not sole focus of attention and interest for the individual. It is acceptable for the self to hate what is flawed, wicked or in error about the self, while working to improve these defects.

 

Beyond this point self-hatred or other-hatred turns vicious, ugly and counterproductive. One is not to love one’s self-indulgent, hedonistic, short-term chasing after pleasure, that is a negative loving of the self.

 

Healthy self-love of the egoistic individuators who esteems the self and has pride in the self and his intellect, grounded in his actual accomplishments, is desirable, even obligatory, but bragging and strutting are not good for the self, and irritates the neighbors.