A Monkish Kind of Virtue”? For and Against Humility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Button (0000-0002-4169-2619, University of Utah), Mark E Button (0000-0001-9315-5615, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 840-868 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591705280525 |
| OpenAlex | W2053110809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Over the past several decades, scholars of liberal and democratic theory have shown a heightened interest in the role that various virtues might play in promoting the good/free society. Yet within this recent “return” to the virtues, one quality that has been almost entirely left out of the discussion is humility. In this essay, I critically address this lacuna and offer a defense of a particular form of humility, what I call democratic humility. After considering a range of moral and political objections to the concept of humility, I provide an account that seeks to address some of these long-standing difficulties while arguing that the idea of humility, recuperated as an ethos of civic attentiveness, may be one of the most important virtues for late-modern societies marked by ethical and cultural pluralism
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Humility · Pluralism (philosophy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Ethics in medical practice · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |