Christopher M. Bellitto: Humility
Humility
Buch
- The Secret History of a Lost Virtue
- Georgetown University Press, 09/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781647123765
- Bestellnummer: 11496370
- Umfang: 176 Seiten
- Gewicht: 295 g
- Maße: 203 x 127 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.9.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"This book is an accessible discussion of humility for a general audience that aims to recover a lost virtue and to offer humility as a way forward for our divided society. It's a cultural history-the biography of an idea. Recovering humility might serve as an alternative to the diseases of hubris, arrogance, and narcissism that have infected us. The frightening alternative to a life of humility has been the death of civility. History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, hubris follows. This book explores treatments of humility in Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and literature; ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures and sermons; and Enlightenment and contemporary discussions on education in virtue and citizenship"-- Christopher M. Bellitto
Humility
EUR 32,30*