Humility : the secret history of a lost virtue / Christopher M. Bellitto

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2023Description: 165 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781647123765
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Humility
Contents:
Prologue : The Problem and the Potential -- Ancient Notions of Humility -- Humility in a Biblical Key -- A Medieval Golden Age -- The Paradox of Learned Ignorance -- Modernity Forgets - and Starts to Remember - Epilogue : Recovering a Lost Virtue.
Summary: "This book is an accessible discussion of humility for a general audience that aims to recover a lost virtue and to offer humility as a way forward for our divided society. It's a cultural history-the biography of an idea. Recovering humility might serve as an alternative to the diseases of hubris, arrogance, and narcissism that have infected us. The frightening alternative to a life of humility has been the death of civility. History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, hubris follows. This book explores treatments of humility in Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and literature; ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures and sermons; and Enlightenment and contemporary discussions on education in virtue and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : The Problem and the Potential -- Ancient Notions of Humility -- Humility in a Biblical Key -- A Medieval Golden Age -- The Paradox of Learned Ignorance -- Modernity Forgets - and Starts to Remember - Epilogue : Recovering a Lost Virtue.

"This book is an accessible discussion of humility for a general audience that aims to recover a lost virtue and to offer humility as a way forward for our divided society. It's a cultural history-the biography of an idea. Recovering humility might serve as an alternative to the diseases of hubris, arrogance, and narcissism that have infected us. The frightening alternative to a life of humility has been the death of civility. History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, hubris follows. This book explores treatments of humility in Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and literature; ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures and sermons; and Enlightenment and contemporary discussions on education in virtue and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.

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