Humility
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble." --"One Night in Bangkok" (1984) by Murray Head |
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Humility is the quality of being humble. Dictionary definitions accentuate humility as a low self-regard and sense of unworthiness. Outside of a religious context, humility is defined as being "unselved", a liberation from consciousness of self, a form of temperance that is neither having pride (or haughtiness) nor indulging in self-deprecation.
Humility is an outward expression of an appropriate inner, or self regard, and is contrasted with humiliation which is an imposition, often external, of shame upon a person. Humility may be misappropriated as ability to suffer humiliation through self-denouncements which in itself remains focused on self rather than low self-focus.
Humility, in various interpretations, is widely seen as a virtue which centers on low self-preoccupation, or unwillingness to put oneself forward, so it is in many religious and philosophical traditions, it contrasts with narcissism, hubris and other forms of pride and is an idealistic and rare intrinsic construct that has an extrinsic side.
See also
- Egolessness
- Humiliation
- Humility theology
- Intellectual humility
- Madonna of humility
- Moral character
- Piecemeal engineering
- Pharisee and the Publican
- Aidos, Greek goddess of shame, modesty, and humility.
- Self-abasement
- Self-abnegation