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Non-Doxastic Accounts
accounts seeing modesty or humility as being rooted in very different kinds of states and relations
key feature
Proportion
Attitudes should be proportionate to the absolute goodness of their object (Hurka, 2001)
Indifference
indifference (emotional insensitivity) to the praise, to the high ranking relative to others, or to the positive evaluation by others
Schueler (1997) and Arpaly and Schroeder (2014)
Roberts and Wood (2003) contrast humility with the vices of vanity and arrogance
lacking vanity means being unconcerned with the opinions of others
lacking arrogance means being unconcerned with entitlements that come along with social recognition of good qualities
To oppose pride or arrogance (Sanskrit māna), Buddhist thinkers advocate for a kind of
equanimity
that involves a kind of indifference to external resentment and approval as it counteracts forms of self-attachment that are thought to produce suffering.
Asymmetry
Utterances and thoughts about ourselves have
special norms
that are
different
from those concerning others.
saying “I deserve a standing ovation” is very different from “She deserves a standing ovation” (Maes, 2004)
Kindness
modesty or humility as a special type of benevolence or kindness, a sensitivity to the well-being of others when presenting our own good qualities (Wilson, 2014)
modesty or humility is a way of valuing and promoting the wellbeing of others, (regardless of the accuracy of one’s self-assessments)
modesty is not merely a trait of an individual, but is deeply social in nature
Attention
modesty as rooted in patterns of motivated conscious attention
being modest is a matter of motivated inattention to one’s own good qualities and attention to external factors that brought them about (Bommarito, 2013)
modest person know about their good qualities, but they don’t think about them very often
when they do think about them, they tend to emphasize the role of situational factors in bringing them about
emphasizing things like having good teachers, supportive parents, or fortunate circumstances
Executive
modesty as being essentially related to the
execution
of other virtues, ie. it,like courage, self-control, and patience, helps to promote the ends of other virtues
modesty as functioning as a brake on certain bad tendencies
pride
desires for personal excellence
demands on others
emotions of self-admiration
modesty has a positive role of promoting the ends of other moral virtues
do not explain modesty or humility by appeal to beliefs or belief-like states at all.