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Jetter is more wise than myself... "if you act like a jerk you are one"...

Myself i think too much; if someone act like a jerk i am not sure that it is one....Perhaps it is a way to excuse myself.... 😁

Then i wrote too long post....You are right erase me....

My apology to all for my ramblings ...


Humility or pride has nothing to do with the fact that a person is talented by the way....

I come from a very poor upbringing myself @mapman , though myself and my siblings have all done very well for ourselves. We do have our parents good genetics, and good worth ethic to thank and a loving upbringing. We were never pushed, but we were never told there were limits either.  I would not call myself or my siblings overall very humble and my brothers and I definitely not, but we certainly don't look down on those of lesser success and we don't equate wealth with being a better person (or worse). It has made us all more fiscally right wing, but we are all socially pretty left wing, but politically right in the center.

The origins of humility as a "virtue" are not necessarily good though. It can be traced by to religious piety and one could even say subservience (to a diety). Nietzsche even characterized it as a defence mechanism for the weak to survive the strong (paraphrasing). By calling it a virtue, we are "forced" to assume it is a good thing without reflection on whether it is or not.

Being exceptionally aware of your limitations and failings does not require one to be humble.

Hmm I’ll go out on a limb and assert the most acclaimed philosophers probably are served well by a fair dose of humility. They run the risk of preaching to a vacuum if their lack of humility means nobody wants to listen to them.

Of course they may just think they are smarter than everyone else and not care. In which case their brilliance might merely go to the grave with them.

Maybe once they write it all down and someone chooses to read it, humility is a moot point.

Different strokes.....

Here is an article that accurately reflects my view on humility better than I could ever explain it.

Perhaps I’ve been brainwashed?  But this is exactly how I tend to think about it.

Humility in Judaism - My Jewish Learning

@mahgister
Your post was not too long and a delight to read.

Jetter is more wise than myself... 

Not in this lifetime my friend.

Humility can be a false "virtue", the anthropological nietzschean analysis go indeed very deep in the christian Occidental soul... Humility can be a fake virtue... Indeed...

But humility cannot be erased once and for all of the hall of virtues by the wise analysis of Nietzsche...

Humility is also something coming from more deep stata than something attribute to the sole Ego...

Humility can be observed when a wise humble buddhist monk wait to give his rice that the hand was opened up before spooning the rice, he must humbly and patiently  wait that the people ask first for it and open effectively their hands...

A long time ago a christian doctor in journey to Japan in a buddhist monastery in 1956, was speaking with enthusiasm about the greatness of christian Charity to the buddhist monk that effectively agreed to his affirmation of virtue greatness for charity...

But the wise monk said that the humility and patience to wait for a hand to volontarily open by itself before spooning the rice in was also a great virtue.... Because spooning the rice without this patient and humble waiting for it was useless at the end....We must learn to wait for the right moment and for the permission of those we want to help....

Nietzsche was necessary in Christian country, not so in Asian one....

Humility is great virtue after all....

With this virtue the mind can be more attentive to the world phenomenon....Humility is one of the virtue of truly great scientist after Goethe who said that we must patiently wait to see nature open itself to us....

Someone can also wait for his knowledge to be received that someone ask for it....