Humility : the secret history of 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 hub...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[2023].
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 165 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781647123765 1647123763 |