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Strong accuracy accounts
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humility does involve underestimation, but as a means to accurate self-assessment
humility is a corrective to a general human tendency to think too highly of ourselves (Foot, 2002; Slote, 1983)
different scales of evaluation
(Brennan, 2007)
modest people evaluate themselves relative to an ideal but evaluate others relative to practical norms
Having two scales allows the modest person to make accurate assessments of themselves and others, albeit with regard to different evaluative standards
modest people rightly think of themselves as not very good (compared to an ideal like a saint), and can rightly think of other people as being good (relative to how good most people actually are)
‘egalitarian’ views
modesty is rooted in a the (Kantian) accurate recognition of equal moral status of all rational agents
modesty is a matter of knowledge of the equal moral worth of everyone and accurately seeing that particular good qualities do not affect this worth (Ben-Ze'ev, 1993)
- one’s “moral worth as a person” = a static and invariable value
- one’s “worth as a moral person” = a value that can be affected by good qualities (Hare, 1996)
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