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The 21st century has seen a renewed interest in cultivating positive character traits, or virtues, to foster personal growth. Humility is a virtue that has long been understood--especially by early theological thinking and Western philosophers--through its associations with meekness and servility. Even in more recent, secular contexts, humility is associated with low-mindedness, self-denigration, and even self-loathing. While it seems paradoxical that this virtue
can be developed to achieve a sense of well-being, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of humility as an admirable and desirable trait that allows us to place the needs of others before our
own, keep our accomplishments in perspective, and fully realize our small place in the world.In a series of multidisciplinary essays spanning religious and secular traditions, this volume introduces readers to the many facets of humility. Essays explore perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam on the role of humility in determining how we should align ourselves with a higher spiritual power. Other essays examine the epistemic value of humility in the development
of knowledge, and the applied nature of this virtue within the professional fields of politics, business management, nursing and hospice care, and competitive sports. This collection concludes by
considering the possibility of humility as the most important virtue, foundational to the moral development and expression of all other virtues.
The 21st century has seen a renewed interest in cultivating positive character traits, or virtues, to foster personal growth. Humility is a virtue that has long been understood--especially by early theological thinking and Western philosophers--through its associations with meekness and servility. Even in more recent, secular contexts, humility is associated with low-mindedness, self-denigration, and even self-loathing. While it seems paradoxical that this virtue
can be developed to achieve a sense of well-being, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of humility as an admirable and desirable trait that allows us to place the needs of others before our
own, keep our accomplishments in perspective, and fully realize our small place in the world.In a series of multidisciplinary essays spanning religious and secular traditions, this volume introduces readers to the many facets of humility. Essays explore perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam on the role of humility in determining how we should align ourselves with a higher spiritual power. Other essays examine the epistemic value of humility in the development
of knowledge, and the applied nature of this virtue within the professional fields of politics, business management, nursing and hospice care, and competitive sports. This collection concludes by
considering the possibility of humility as the most important virtue, foundational to the moral development and expression of all other virtues.
Introduction
Part I: Conceptualizing Humility
Chapter 1: Occupying Your Rightful Space, Alan Morinis
Chapter 2: Secular Humility, Erik J. Wielenberg
Chapter 3: A Critical Examination and Reconceptualization of
Humility, Mark R. Leary and Chloe C. Banker
Chapter 4: A Relational Humility Framework: Perceptions of Humility
in Relational Contexts, David K. Mosher, Joshua N. Hook, Don E.
Davis, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, and Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Chapter 5: Humility in Four Forms: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal,
Community and Ecological, Darcia Narvaez
Chapter 6: Humility as a Foundational Virtue, Jennifer Cole
Wright
Part II: Moral Humility in our Lives
Chapter 7: Humility: The Soil in Which Happiness Grows, Pelin
Kesebir
Chapter 8: Self-Other Concept in Humble Love As Exemplified by
Long-Term Members of L'Arche, Robert C. Roberts and Michael
Spezio
Chapter 9: Humility and Helplessness in the Realization of
Limitations within Hospice, Kay de Vries
Chapter 10: Humility in Competitive Contexts, Michael W. Austin
Chapter 11: Humility and Decision Making In Companies, Antonio
Argandoña
Chapter 12: Frederick Douglass and the Power of Humility, David J.
Bobb
Part III: Intellectual Humility
Chapter 13: Self-Trust and Epistemic Humility, C. Thi Nguyen
Chapter 14: Understanding Humility as Intellectual Virtue and
Measuring it as Psychological Trait, Megan C. Haggard
Jennifer Cole Wright is Associate Professor of Psychology at the
College of Charleston. She is an affiliate member of the Philosophy
Department and Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and
Sustainability and Social Justice Faculty Fellow with the Honors
College. Her area of research is moral development and moral
psychology. She co-edited, with Hagop Sarkissian, Advances in
Experimental Moral Psychology
(Bloomsbury), and is currently co-authoring a book Understanding
Virtue: Theory and Measurement (Oxford University Press) with Nancy
E. Snow and Michael Warren.
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