I just rediscovered.

[Landroval]

Well, some people would say "shame" is the opposite of pride because some people insist pride can be a positive quality, but the positive quality of pride such as having pride in ones accomplishments or pride in ones appearance it only an imperfect reflection of the Pride which is titrated between arrogance ignorance weakness and knowledge, but we will entertain the idea that shame is it opposite and perform a dialectical analysis on shame to show this is simply not the case and is, rather, a post-hoc rationalization of the ego to protect the more pervasive negative characteristics of pride.

How is shame exemplified?

When we perceive a person as shameful, we perceive them as lacking in knowledge (ignorance) and we see the as exemplifying failure, which brings us to the concept of "sin". "Sin" by definition means "missing the mark" which is synonymous with failure so these two sub-forms; sin and ignorance are how shame is exemplified, but how is shame projected onto others?

When we see someone we care for making a mistake such as our child who fallson the ground doing some goofy maneuver we have a tendency to look away, not acknowledging the "Humiliation" of their mistake, giving them the psychological space necessary to stole that shame away under the guise of them thinking no one saw it, or we counter that shame by encouraging them, but the concept of "humiliation" is what's at play here. And when we are "shaming" someone we are projecting humiliation onto them for their lack of knowing better(ignorance), and or we, like the prideful person projects our perspective of their "weakness" onto them.

So the axiom of shame looks like a pyramidal structure that resembles this axiom;

Ignorance---------\|/---------Weakness
--------------------Shame------------------
Sin(failure)--------/|\--------Humiliation

And if we butt pride and shame up against each other we see they share two bases:. Ignorance and Weakness;

Arrogance---------\|/--------Knowledge
---------------------Pride-------------------
Ignorance---------/|\---------Weakness
Ignorance---------\|/---------Weakness
--------------------Shame------------------
Sin(failure)--------/|\--------Humiliation

[Landroval]

So because pride and shame "share" half of their sub-level "Forms" they can only be esteemed as half-opposites, and to prove this we can assert that Pride IS subconsciously repressed shame, so they are actually two sides of the same coin.

So what is the conjugate of pride?

Proverbs 11:2 tells us;
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: But with the lowly is wisdom.

And here we have a very profound relationship spelled out quite clearly

The conjugate of pride is "Humility"

Strength-----------\|/-------Awareness
-------------------Humility----------------
Humiliation-------/|\----------Patience

Humility shares two of its bases with shame humiliation and strength; but wait!!!

"Strength is not weakness"

Oh, but it IS.

How does a weightlifter "build" strength? He does so by repeatedly pushing his muscle to the point of failure, and in repeatedly and earnestly pushing the weakness of his muscle to failure that experience builds strength, so they are the same thing except weakness requires experience and vulnerability to become strength but let's not fool ourselves; even with "some" strength, strength is not an absolute and eventually if you keep pushing at it, strength too will fail due to its weakness.

And as proverbs says, humility is half opposite of wisdom as well.

Knowledge-------\|/----------Success
-------------------Wisdom---------------
Strength-----------/|\-------Awareness
Strength-----------\|/-------Awareness
-------------------Humility----------------
Humiliation-------/|\----------Patience


So if we put these four higher level forms together they form a circular pattern with another cross that exists between them.

And if we rotate this construct 90 degrees;

Ignorance-------\|/----------Arrrogance
-------------------Pride---------------
Courage---------/|\-------Knowledge
Courage---------\|/-------Knowledge
------------------Wisdom----------------
Awareness-------/|\---------Strength

Ignorance---------\|/---------Failure
-------------------Shame---------------
Vulnerability------/|\-------Humiliation
Vulnerability------\|/-------Humiliation
-------------------Humility----------------
Awareness--------/|\--------Strength


This is the half-opposite relationship of wisdom paired with pride, and shame paired with humility.
And picrel is all of these forms in their totality as they are positionally related to each other in the platonic realm of Forms

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