Self-love anchors Paul's catalog of last-days vices in 2 Timothy 3:2. Classical philosophers debated whether φιλαυτία could be virtuous (the good person rightly loves himself), but Paul's usage is unambiguous: this is narcissistic self-absorption, the root from which other vices sprout. When self becomes the object of primary devotion, community fractures and virtue becomes impossible. The compound (φίλος + αὑτοῦ = loving + oneself) makes the pathology explicit, while multilingual glosses (Spanish 'amantes-de-sí-mismos,' German 'selbstsüchtig') consistently render it pejoratively as selfishness rather than healthy self-regard.