Editing Humility (section)

==Philosophical views of humility==
[[File:Immanuel Kant portrait c1790.jpg|thumb|[[Immanuel Kant]]]]
[[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s view of humility has been defined as "that meta-attitude that constitutes the moral agent's proper perspective on himself as a dependent and corrupt but capable and dignified rational agent".<ref>{{cite web|last=Frierson|first=Patrick|url=http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4881|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519070616/http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24910/?id=4881|archive-date=2016-05-19|title=Kant and the Ethics of Humility (review)|publisher=University of Notre Dame}}</ref> Kant's notion of humility relies on the centrality of truth and rational thought leading to proper perspective and his notion can therefore be seen{{by whom|date=August 2023}} as [[emergence|emergent]].

[[Mahatma Gandhi]] said that an attempt to sustain [[truth]] without humility is doomed to become an "arrogant caricature" of truth.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.geocities.com/rkvenkat/chastity.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060630013653/http://www.geocities.com/rkvenkat/chastity.html  |archive-date= 2006-06-30 |title= True Celibacy|work =Young India|date=25 June 1925}}</ref>

While many religions and philosophers view humility as a virtue, some have been critical of it, seeing it as opposed to [[individualism]].

"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools," wrote [[Arthur Schopenhauer]], "for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one".<ref>{{cite book|first=Arthur|last=Schopenhauer|title=The Wisdom of Life (Essays)|chapter=Pride|year=1851|title-link=Parerga and Paralipomena|at=section 2}}</ref>

[[Nietzsche]] viewed humility as a [[strategy]] used by the weak to avoid being destroyed by the strong.  In ''[[Twilight of the Idols]]'' he wrote: "When stepped on, a worm doubles up. That is clever. In that way he lessens the probability of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility."<ref>{{cite book |last=Nietzsche |first=Friedrich |translator-last=Polt |translator-first=Richard |title=Twighlight of the Idols |year= 1997 |publisher=Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |isbn=978-1-60384-880-0 |page=9 |edition=Adobe PDF ebook |url=https://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Phil_100/Nietzsche_files/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Twilight-of-the-Idols-or-How-to-Philosophize-With-the-Hammer-Translated-by-Richard-Polt.pdf |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> He believed that his idealized {{transliteration|de|[[Übermensch]]}} would be more apt to roam unfettered by pretensions of humility, proud of his stature and power, but not reveling idly in it, and certainly not displaying [[hubris]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}} But, if so, this would mean the pretension aspect of this kind of humility is more akin to [[obsequiousness]] and to other kinds of pretentious humility.