[ExI] humility

[BillK]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:40, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2020 8:26 AM
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> >…I really like the Paradox of Humility. It’s effectively equivalent to the Socratic paradox, but brings the concept of sufficiency into the equation.
> >…Where humility is considered a virtue one must ask how one would be aware that one possesses that virtue. In short how much of what must you do or have to be rightly regarded as ‘humble’?
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> Ah BillW, of course I understand this paradox.  We cannot assess our own humility, which is why we had to organize the competition to start with: have others assess it for us.  Finding suitable judges for that is crazy difficult.  In order to be qualified, they have to be unqualified.
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> >…The paradox arises from the fact that humility cannot be self-identified, since it is defined by a regard for oneself that assigns greater importance to others. When one is assessing one’s own humility then humility cannot be demonstrated.
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> This is partly correct, but the part about assigning a greater importance to others is but one event in the multi-event humathlon.
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> spike
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Don't forget Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep>
Quotes:
His character is notable for his cloying humility, unctuousness,
obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own
"'umbleness". His name has become synonymous with sycophancy.
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There is pretend humble and true humble.
It was George Burns who is attributed with the razor sharp aphorism:
"Sincerity, if you can fake that, you've got it made."
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BillK