Humility : a history / Justin Steinberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steinberg, Justin (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humility.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Humility: A History, a collection of original chapters and reflections, explores the ethical, political, and philosophical implications of humility. Drawing on historical analyses of humility from Plato to the present, the new essays gathered in this volume pose timely questions about virtue, disagreement, and tolerance.

Contents:

Plato’s socrates and humility / Iakovos Vasiliou

Humility: ancient chinese and greek perspectives / Jingyi Jenny Zhao

Augustine’s “humility”: neither “monkish” nor monosemantic / Sarah Byers

Humility, self-naughting, and self-transcendence: a view from the islamic mystical tradition / Atif Khalil

Seeking unworthiness, self-knowledge, and truth: humility in the medieval monastic tradition of the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Lauren Mancia

Humility in later medieval philosophy / Martin Pickavé

Skepticism, humility, and a limited defense of religious toleration in montaigne / John Christian Laursen

Reflection: humility and caravaggio / Anne H Muraoka

“Say not that you are a light unto yourself”: seventeenth-century conceptions of humility in epistemology, ethics, and politics / Julie Walsh and Eric Stencil

Spinoza’s changing views on humility explored through a cartesian lens / Sanem Soyarslan

Reflection: Jane austen, humility, and the doctrine of the mean / Eva M Dadlezp

Nietzsche on humility and modesty / Mark Alfano

Humility and modern Jewish philosophy / Michael L Morgan

Reflection: humility as an environmental virtue / William Edelglassp

Black pride and humility / Chike Jeffers

Reflection: what is humility, psychologically speaking? / Jennifer Cole Wrightp

Humility, moral exemplarism, and moral goodness / Nancy E Snow

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed November 20, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Humility

ISBN:

9780197778166

019777816X

9780197778678

0197778674

OCLC:

1547166605

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