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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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[2023].
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Table of 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.