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"A Monkish Kind of Virtue"? For and Against Humility
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Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), I,
ii, VI, p. 291.
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Hume, Treatise, I, ii, II, p. 277.
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Hume, Treatise, I, ii, VII, p. 298. This passage calls to mind Nietzsche’s argument in the Genealogy
that man is an animal that needs to be forgetful. See Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter
Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), Second Essay. A future avenue of inquiry might examine
the conceptual (and perhaps religious) inter-dependencies of the idea of humility and the faculty of human
memory, folding in concerns with time, guilt, and action.
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Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995), IX, I, pp. 268-270.
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Hume, Enquiry, IX, I, p. 270. Hume’s argument against humility provides an interesting contrast with
that of Franklin. Franklin discovers that his attempts at humility were, contra Hume, quite productive and
most conducive to his self-interest (especially his popularity) and to what he imagines to be the interest of
others (that is, toward his influence over others). The difference between Franklin and Hume on these
points appears to be that Franklin is only referring to the virtue of the appearance of humility, whereas
Hume, taking this virtue more seriously as an inward, self-regarding disposition, is addressing the fact of
humility as a consistent character type. See Franklin, Autobiography, p. 102.
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Kant, Lectures on Ethics, ed. Peter Heath and J.B. Schneewind (Cambridge University Press, 1997),
27:349, p. 129.
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Lectures on Ethics, 27:349, p. 129.
42
Machiavelli, The Discourses, trans. Leslie J. Walker (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), II.2, p. 278.
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Discourses, p. 278.
44
Discourses, p. 277.
45
Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, trans. Marion Faber (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984),
87.
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Human, All Too Human, 137.
47
See especially here, The Antichrist, 6; 17-18; 47; Twilight of the Idols, 1-6; 33; 35; 37-38, in The
Portable Nietzsche, tans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin Books, 1982).
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35
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), I,
ii, VI, p. 291.
36
Hume, Treatise, I, ii, II, p. 277.
37
Hume, Treatise, I, ii, VII, p. 298. This passage calls to mind Nietzsche’s argument in the Genealogy
that man is an animal that needs to be forgetful. See Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter
Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), Second Essay. A future avenue of inquiry might examine
the conceptual (and perhaps religious) inter-dependencies of the idea of humility and the faculty of human
memory, folding in concerns with time, guilt, and action.
38
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995), IX, I, pp. 268-270.
39
Hume, Enquiry, IX, I, p. 270. Hume’s argument against humility provides an interesting contrast with
that of Franklin. Franklin discovers that his attempts at humility were, contra Hume, quite productive and
most conducive to his self-interest (especially his popularity) and to what he imagines to be the interest of
others (that is, toward his influence over others). The difference between Franklin and Hume on these
points appears to be that Franklin is only referring to the virtue of the appearance of humility, whereas
Hume, taking this virtue more seriously as an inward, self-regarding disposition, is addressing the fact of
humility as a consistent character type. See Franklin, Autobiography, p. 102.
40
Kant, Lectures on Ethics, ed. Peter Heath and J.B. Schneewind (Cambridge University Press, 1997),
27:349, p. 129.
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Lectures on Ethics, 27:349, p. 129.
42
Machiavelli, The Discourses, trans. Leslie J. Walker (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), II.2, p. 278.
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Discourses, p. 278.
44
Discourses, p. 277.
45
Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, trans. Marion Faber (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984),
87.
46
Human, All Too Human, 137.
47
See especially here, The Antichrist, 6; 17-18; 47; Twilight of the Idols, 1-6; 33; 35; 37-38, in The
Portable Nietzsche, tans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin Books, 1982).
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