Aquinas on humility and relational greatness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23196490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Pinsent (0000-0001-7529-7484, corresponding author), Andrew Charles Pinsent |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 202-211 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351107532-22 |
| OpenAlex | W3036208160 |
| ISBN | 9781351107532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Humility is a practically orphaned virtue in contemporary virtue ethics, and its theological associations in classical and medieval texts do not, at first glance, commend humility in a secular world. In response, I examine in this chapter the place accorded to humility in Aquinas’s relational virtue ethics. I begin by showing how the four species of pride he identifies inhibit flourishing from both a first- and second-person perspective, and how Aquinas’s defends both humility as a guardian of relationships and a concomitant virtue of greatness. I conclude by observing how Aquinas’s account of humility also transposes into a more secular framework, given the need for a disposition to protect the many interpersonal relationships and their fruitfulness that are associated with human flourishing.
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Flourishing · Generosity · Greatness · Humility · Theology · Virtue · Ethics in medical practice · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |