Humility - A History

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.

Table des matières

• 1. Plato's Socrates and Humility; Iakovos Vasiliou


• 2. Humility: Ancient Chinese and Greek Perspectives; Jingyi Jenny Zhao


• 3. Augustine's "Humility": Neither "Monkish" Nor Monosemantic; Sarah Byers


• 4. Humility, Self-Naughting, and Self-Transcendence: A Sufi Perspective; Atif Khalil


• 5. Seeking Unworthiness, Self-Knowledge, and Truth: Humility in the Medieval Monastic Tradition of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Lauren Mancia


• 6. Humility in Later Medieval Philosophy; Martin Pickavé


• 7. Skepticism, Humility, and a Limited Defense of Religious Toleration in Montaigne; John Christian Laursen


• 8. "Say not that you are a light unto yourself": Seventeenth-Century Conceptions of Humility in Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics; Julie Walsh and Eric Stencil


• 9. Spinoza's Changing Views on Humility Explored through a Cartesian Lens; Sanem Soyarslan


• 10. The Eyes of Others: Hume and Smith on Humility and Qualities of Reserve; Lauren Kopajtic


• 11. Nietzsche on Humility and Modesty; Mark Alfano


• 12. Humility and Modern Jewish Philosophy; Michael Morgan


• 13. Black Pride and Humility; Chike Jeffers


• 14. Humility, Moral Exemplarism, and Moral Goodness; Nancy Snow


• 15. Humility and Caravaggio; Anne H. Muraoka


• 16. Jane Austen, Humility, and the Doctrine of the Mean; Eva M. Dadlez


• 17. What is Humility, Psychologically Speaking?; Jennifer Cole Wright


• Humility as an Environmental Virtue; William Edelglass

A propos de l'auteur

Justin Steinberg is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He is the author of Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear (Cambridge, 2018), the co-author of Spinoza (Polity, 2020), and the co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon volume.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Justin (Professor of Philosophy Steinberg
• Collaboration: Steinberg Justin (Editeur)
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.05.2025
• EAN: 9780197778142
• ISBN: 978-0-19-777814-2
• Pages: 440
• Thème: OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge