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Key features of modesty - Coggle Diagram
Key features of modesty
explicitly stated in Driver (1989 and 2001)
False Modesty
some people who are not modest can act
as if
they are
Modesty and humility require certain
mental states
in addition to overt behaviors.
accounts of modesty that are
entirely
behavioral are excluded.
If being modest is simply a matter of certain external behaviors, then there would be no way to distinguish modesty from false modesty.
Dependent Virtue
Slote (1983)
Ben-Ze’ev (1993) denies it
modesty requires the existence of another good quality
One is modest about something else that is good
about their success or intelligence
good quality is typically taken to be something
objectively
good (rather than simply something that the person
thinks
is good)
good quality of the
person
who is
modest
good qualities in
others
when they reflect on us (Bommarito (2013))
one is modest about the achievements of their child, nation, or local sports teams
Self-Attribution Strangeness
Self-predications of modesty and humility are, at least in general, self-undermining.
the sentence “I am modest” is a distinctly immodest thing to say (Sorensen, 1988)
Altohugh Raterman (2006) and Bommarito (2013) describe contexts in which saying “I am modest” is not self-undermining
a modest person does not think of themselves as acting modestly (while a just person typically does think of themselves as acting justly)