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In Search Of The Meaning Of Humility. by philoedu(m): 2:39pm On Feb 06, 2022
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, " Humility is the quality of not thinking that you are better than other people: the quality of being humble. In this perspective, it will be argue that it is a virtue and it is most disliked in the sphere of our natural feeling.
This is true, because it cannot be arcquired without undergoing, so it seems, some very unpleasant process of humiliation.
Indeed, there is a saying, that Our Lord Jesus became humble through suffering. Therefore, for any true Christian, the very meaning of Humility cannot be forgotten. And the same is true that it is the very sinfulness of pride of which the importance of Humility come to play an important Christian teaching.
In order to to get a clear understanding of the Meaning of Humility, it may be we'll be advised to clear our mind of any false ideas of virtue, that we may have come to entertained.
It is not an illusion, that often, some individual come to think and believe that Humility stand in opposition to truth as they embrace a decietful thinking to themselves just to display an act of Humility for the sake of wants and self - gratification.
However, there are school of thought who believe that a humble individual must not stand up for himself non any fair play and justice. However, it must be made clear that this type of conception amount to nothing than a peculiar pitfall of the one who looks like a timid individual that tends to prefer to remain in silent when in justice, instead of breaking his silence for the sake of others. This is but a canopy of an individual in the frame up of an excuse of cawardic attitude in the name of Humility.
Humility is never an act of being fearful, non does it remove from any one the sense of the cultivation of talents and in the maintance of self-estem. It is unfortunate, that a bunch of individual come to confuse Humility with that of lazyness and fearfulness of taking a responsibility, which amount to being in a state of self deception known as inferiority complex.
In this perspective, perhaps the most pitiable form of false humility is that of who choose to speaks bad of himself and his capacities, just to be contradicted by others as he indirectly encourage them to praise him.
Often, a bunch of individual come to believe that it is only the religious who are meant to be humble, because only this type of people who alone can lie on the floor for others without running a grave risk of being laugh at. Of cause, it is a common experience to find that humility exist not so much among a bunch of limited intellectual capacity, just as among some trickles of distinguished schoolars. And indeed, of a bunch of individuals who know so much that they know how little knowledge they possess.

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