{"id":2249,"date":"2025-04-14T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/openfordebate\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:55:41","slug":"a-careful-call-for-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/openfordebate\/a-careful-call-for-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"A Careful Call for Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sit down. Be humble. \u2013 Kendrick Lamar, \u201cHumble\u201d<\/p>\n

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Humility is a virtue, right? Many people think so. Many think: we should be mindful of our limitations. We should take care to keep in view the possibility that we could be wrong about our beliefs. We should attend to the ways that others have helped us to get where we are today. We should not overestimate our merits or accomplishments.<\/p>\n

To put a finer point on things: perhaps humility is the lost virtue of our time, <\/em>the crumbling mortar that could have held pluralistic liberal democracies together. When people aren\u2019t <\/em>humble, when they arrogantly pursue world-domination and self-aggrandizement or insist on their own visions of success without mindfulness of others\u2019 views or the interconnectedness of all people\u2026 well, perhaps we\u2019re being reminded of what can happen.<\/p>\n

I think humility is a virtue, too, and a terribly (terrifyingly?) important one. But I also think we need to be careful<\/em> about how we understand humility and how we celebrate it on a societal level.<\/p>\n

Frederick Douglass wrote, in his autobiography The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass <\/em>(1896):<\/p>\n

I have met, at the south, many good, religious colored people who were under the delusion that God required them to submit to slavery and to wear their chains with meekness and humility. I could entertain no such nonsense as this.<\/p>\n

The idea that slaves should humbly submit to slavery is anathema. It is moreover abominable to think that victims of gaslighting ought to humbly submit to those attacking their capacities, that victims of domestic violence should be humble about their deserving better treatment, or more generally that victims of harassment or discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, or race should humbly submit to oppressive conditions.<\/p>\n

In Douglass\u2019s world, calls for \u201chumility\u201d were a way of justifying and prolonging the unjust status quo. Calls for humility can still function that way today, and it\u2019s not just racial oppression they can (still) prolong. In some \u2013 though far from all \u2013 Christian circles, women are specially encouraged<\/a> to adopt a position of humility and submission before God but also their husbands. And Christianity is not the only possible culprit here (although perhaps the humility-celebrating religion is distinctively dangerous). An ascendant patriarchy means that women and girls should be wary of how \u201chumility\u201d is often linked with submission.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 where to go from here? We shouldn\u2019t just <\/em>trumpet humility as the lost virtue of our time, as much as certain leaders and segments of society might need it. Indiscriminately celebrating \u201chumility\u201d would be to ignore the way that such celebrations can function as a tool of oppression, precisely abetting the schemes of the powerful. As I see things, there are three remaining options.<\/p>\n

Option #1: Abandon \u201chumility\u201d talk as retrograde and oppressive. Think pre-Christian \u2013 think Aristotle! Or think post-Christian \u2013 think Nietzsche! Celebrate greatness and power and nobility and courage, and forget about humility as a genuine virtue.<\/p>\n

Problem: humility is <\/em>sometimes virtuous, and it does <\/em>seem to be a particularly important virtue for pluralistic societies. I don\u2019t want to live in a world of preening noblemen. I don\u2019t want to live in a world of self-important jerks. The good people I\u2019ve known \u2013 the really <\/em>good people \u2013 have all been marked by the ability to listen to others, to put aside ego where necessary, to laugh at themselves. As dangerous as calls for humility can be, we shouldn\u2019t throw the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n

Option #2: Encourage humility, but not for oppressed or marginalized people. If \u201chumility\u201d was bad for slaves and women, well then maybe we should just ask other people <\/em>to be humble.<\/p>\n

Problem: intersectionality. Today\u2019s victim is tomorrow\u2019s oppressor. Sometimes you don\u2019t even need the separation of time. Nussbaum<\/a>, citing the work of historian Tanika Sarkar, suggests that British oppression of men in colonial India actually contributed to cruelty toward women and its toleration in Indian domestic life. \u201cNationalists turned inward, boosting the idea of male autonomy in the home as the one cherished zone of self- rule, \u2018the last pure space left to a conquered people\u2019.\u201d (p. 7) This suggests that even oppressed people may need humility, since oppressed people relate to the world in other ways than as victims of oppression and are not themselves immune to the temptations of vicious self- importance and domination.<\/p>\n

Option #3: Carefully reconsider what humility really is, in order to celebrate something that\u2019s not <\/em>going to be harmful or abet injustice.<\/p>\n

Commonsense notions of \u201chumility\u201d are kind of a grab bag, and they can bake in a lot of qualities that are not (necessarily) valuable. We confuse humility with submission, with quietness, with being the kind of annoying conversationalist who can\u2019t get to the point because they include so many prefaces about how what they\u2019re saying is \u201cjust their opinion\u201d and they \u201cmight be wrong.\u201d None of this is particularly valuable, in general. There\u2019s something valuable in the neighborhood<\/em> of our commonsense conceptions, to be sure. But we need better, less confused and less easily exploitable ways of thinking about what humility really is.<\/p>\n

Might I suggest Iris Murdoch as a muse? Murdoch has it that:<\/p>\n

\u201cHumility is a rare virtue and an unfashionable one and one which is often hard to discern. Only rarely does one meet somebody in whom it positively shines, in whom one apprehends with amazement the absence of the anxious avaricious tentacles of the self\u2026.The humble man, because he sees himself as nothing, can see other things as they are.\u201d (Sovereignty of Good<\/em>)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot in that short passage. Humility is a rare <\/em>virtue \u2013 it\u2019s nothing so simple as not being a jerk, or adding \u201cThat\u2019s just my personal opinion,\u201d to everything controversial you say. Humility is also \u201coften hard to discern,\u201d and only rarely does it \u201cpositively shine.\u201d We see here the idea, also echoed in C.S. Lewis, that humility has a kind of transparency. <\/em>There\u2019s nothing in particular a humble person is disposed to do or not do; there are no actions essential to the humble exemplar. Humility shows up in the way we do everything else. <\/em><\/p>\n

How, in particular, does the humble person do everything else? In \u201cthe absence of the anxious avaricious tentacles of the self,\u201d for Murdoch. Or, as I\u2019ve put things in my academic work, in \u201cfreedom from prideful distraction by the ego.\u201d Humility consists in the disposition to just get on with what matters in life, without tripping over worries about one\u2019s own importance or status. It consists in the ability to focus on what one is doing or what one is hearing and to \u201csee other things as they are,\u201d because one\u2019s gaze isn\u2019t distorted by the desire to see oneself at the center of everything.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve argued elsewhere<\/a>, being free from prideful distraction by one\u2019s ego is compatible with standing up for oneself. There are occasions and contexts \u2013 like Frederick Douglass\u2019s quest for abolition \u2013 when a concern for status is not <\/em>distracting but instead centrally on-task. So humility, as I think about it, is compatible with fighting for one\u2019s rights and refusing to submit to others.<\/p>\n

And yet true humility, true freedom from prideful distraction by status and ego, doesn\u2019t come for free. It\u2019s as difficult as it is valuable, the work of a lifetime. Freedom from distraction by our egos would be good for each of us. Good for our society. We needn\u2019t sit down. But we do need to try to become truly humble.<\/p>\n

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