The ancient theme of the metaphysical-theological extremes of being-human is revisited by asking about the condition for the readiness to engage in the form of violence which is nuclear war. Sartre’s analysis of the extreme form of anger which crosses a threshold resulting in a self-legitimating righteous indignation which admits of no superior mollifying standpoint is appropriated to account for the complacency with the institution of nuclear weapons. The god-like anti-God characteristics of extreme rage are put on ice but ready to be thawed quickly in the three-quarter of a century old disposition to destroy the world in which all life that we know is lived. The parallels with the myth of Lucifer invite themselves. This raises the question of what there is in being-human which is the condition for the possibility of such Luciferian impulses. Features of being human explicated by Husserlian transcendental phenomenology serve as lures to the unique form of pride that here is called Luciferian. Here it is argued that these features can also be lures to a sense of pride, analogous to the ancient magnanimitas , as developed by Aquinas.

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先验的骄傲和路西法主义：关于成为光明和黑暗力量的承载者

通过询问准备参与核战争形式的暴力的条件，重新审视了作为人类的形而上学神学极端的古老主题。萨特对越过门槛的极端愤怒形式的分析，导致自以为合法的义愤，承认没有优越的安抚立场，被用来解释对核武器制度的自满。极端愤怒的神一般的反神特性被置于冰上，但准备在四分之三世纪的古老倾向中迅速解冻，以摧毁我们所知道的所有生命赖以生存的世界。与路西法神话的相似之处邀请自己。这就提出了一个问题，即存在于人类之中的东西是这种路西法冲动的可能性的条件。胡塞尔先验现象学所阐释的人类特征是引诱这里称为路西法的独特骄傲形式。这里有人认为，这些特征也可以引诱自豪感，类似于阿奎那发展的古代 magnanimitas。