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ignorance and underestimation accounts of modesty - Coggle Diagram
ignorance and underestimation accounts of modesty
modest person is someone who is ignorant of their own good qualities in certain ways (Driver, 1989, 2001)
Sidgwick (1981) denies that there is anything virtuous about having a low self-opinion
range of moral virtues that require ignorance
blind charity (seeing the good in others while remaining ignorant of the bad)
impulsive courage
certain refusals to hold grudges
some types of innocence
modesty
modest person need not be completely ignorant of their own good qualities, just underestimate them (Drive, 1999)
this need not require a low estimation as one can underestimate a good quality while still thinking it pretty good overall
modest person is someone who wrongly believes that they are not as good as they really are in some respect
key features of modesty
dependent virtue
there is another quality one is ignorant of
not purely behavioral
it does not allow false modesty
self-attribution strangeness
modesty itself is a good quality
consequentialist account of virtue
traits are virtuous when they produce good effects (Driver, 2001)
makes it easy to accommodate morally virtuous traits that involve epistemic defects
some epistemic defects might turn out to produce better effects in the long run
Aristotelian accounts of virtue as practical wisdom
moral virtue incompatible with epistemic defects