Humility

• Verfasst von: Bellitto, Christopher M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Humility
• Titelzusatz: the secret history of a lost virtue
• Verf.angabe: Christopher M. Bellitto
• Verlagsort: Washington, DC
• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: x, 165 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-376-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Demut / (s)Tugend
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Bellitto, Christopher M: Humility. - Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2023
• RVK-Notation: CC 7250
• K10plus-PPN: 1848612613

Abstract

"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"--