Abstract
If humility is not unique to the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is arguably more prominent there than among other worldviews. Secular philosophies tend to ignore it or view it as weakness. Aristotle promotes the development of self-sufficiency while Nietzsche vigorously opposes humility in favor of a striving toward a demigod-like, elite, Superman type of state.
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Frank S. Mead, ed., 12,000 Religious Quotations (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2000), 237.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 109.
Thomas á Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (New York: Hurst and Company, 1843), 84.
Robert C. Roberts, “What Is It to Be Intellectually Humble?” Big Questions Online, June 21, 2012, https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-it-be-intellectually-humble; also see Robert C. Roberts, “Humility as a Moral Project,” Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 78–95.
William Barclay, And Jesus Said (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1970), 18–21.
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Ringenberg, W.C. (2016). Humility. In: The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398338_4
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