From the book Humilitas: A lost key to life, love, and leadership by John Dickson*. This book was referenced more than once in a college course I took a couple of months ago. I decided to check it out from the library. It is a small book but it is good.
Humility is the noble choice to forgo your status, deploy your resources or use your influence for the good of others before yourself...First, humility presupposes your dignity...Second, humility is willing...Finally, humility is social. (pp. 24 & 25)
We live in a universe that looks uncannily like it was expecting us...We can all stand in awe of the amazing fact that we find ourselves in a universe that not only operates according to elegant "laws", but somehow, through those laws, produced a world of sentient beings who can now comprehend those laws. The fact that there are "laws" is odd; the fact that our brains comprehend those laws is spooky...Atheism lacks the theoretical framework for the kind of humility described in this book. Humility involves both a sense of finitude and a sense of inherent dignity...Thoughtful people recognize that what they don't know and can't do far exceeds what they do know and can do. (pp. 63, 64, & 66)
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Humility is willing goes along with Karen Glass' humility is teachable. And to have wonder at that which is bigger/greater/more transcendant than you is to be humble. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteDawn, it was reading Karen Glass' book that made me think I wanted to pick this book up.
DeleteIt's a small intellectual world :)
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