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Over the past several decades, scholars of liberal and democratic theory have shown an increasing 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 paper I critically address this lacuna and offer a defense of a particular form of humility, what I call democratic humility. Before making my case for democratic humility as an essential virtue for liberal citizenship under conditions of diffuse pluralism, I first explore some of the problems with humility by tracing its intellectual and moral history within the Jewish and Christian traditions. Next, I explore the “hidden” relationship between humility and pride in order to ask, with Hume and Nietzsche, whether humility is any kind of virtue at all. With this moral and historical terrain established, I offer an account of humility that seeks to address some of the historical difficulties with humility 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 incommensurable ethical and cultural pluralism. |
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| Button, Mark. ""A Monkish Kind of Virtue"? For and Against Humility" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Aug 13, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59162_index.html> |
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| Button, M. , 2004-08-13 ""A Monkish Kind of Virtue"? For and Against Humility" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59162_index.html |
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Abstract: Over the past several decades, scholars of liberal and democratic theory have shown an increasing 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 paper I critically address this lacuna and offer a defense of a particular form of humility, what I call democratic humility. Before making my case for democratic humility as an essential virtue for liberal citizenship under conditions of diffuse pluralism, I first explore some of the problems with humility by tracing its intellectual and moral history within the Jewish and Christian traditions. Next, I explore the “hidden” relationship between humility and pride in order to ask, with Hume and Nietzsche, whether humility is any kind of virtue at all. With this moral and historical terrain established, I offer an account of humility that seeks to address some of the historical difficulties with humility 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 incommensurable ethical and cultural pluralism. |
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| "A Monkish Kind of Virtue"? For and Against Humility Mark Button Department of Political Science University of Utah 260 S. Central Campus Dr Room 252 Salt Lake City UT 84112 801-585-7987 mark.button@poli-sci.utah.edu Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association September 2 - September 5 2004. Copyright by the American Political Science Association. "A Monkish Kind of Virtue"? For and Against Humility Abstract Over the past several decades scholars of liberal and democratic |
| calls "the moral point of view." Yet in speaking of democratic humility as a positive moral duty that weighs particularly heavy on public officials under conditions of economic inequality and political exclusion democratic humility may also address some of the concerns of those scholars who sense that deliberative theory and communicative ethics are not sufficiently alive or responsive to the various modalities of difference. See Anne Phillips The Politics of Presence (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995); Susan Bickford The |
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