Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Humility


What is humility?  Humility is a virtue that describes the quality or state of not thinking you are better than other people. This is a virtue that I believe that everyone should have but it’s difficult for everyone to obtain. People in society nowadays have too much pride. They feel that everything and anything that they do is not wrong. This, in turns leads to problems in our community. Society begins to clash because individuals have different views that may go against our own and because we have too much pride to just tolerant it, things can get chaotic. We as a society place ourselves on a high pedestal and are afraid to step down from it because we freight the judgment that others may place on us. But if we humble ourselves we wouldn’t have to worry about this.

People should try to achieve the state of humility because it has its benefits that comes with it. When a person is humble they develop a sense of high self-control. Once they lose the obsession with the self, they have more strength and energy to give to the world. They aren’t spending tremendous amount of time worried about themselves but they are spending the time to help out others. Another benefit of being humble is having a low sense of entitlement. People who are humble don’t think that they are owed things. This results to less prejudiced views in the world. Because humble people don’t feel like they are entitled to things, they tend to be more open-minded and tolerant to others views and beliefs. This helps decrease the amount of tension and or arguments that may possibly happen in the world. Being humble is one key to a strong and a successful life.

These findings have important consequences for the broader domain of community. When you take the time to humble yourself, you are working on a better you and this will helps out your community. When you bring positive vibes into the world, you get positive vibes back.

 
1. All actions used to strengthen a community are virtuous.
2. All humble acts help strengthen a community.
3. Therefore all humble acts are virtuous.

2 comments:

  1. I also think that this is a difficult virtue to obtain, because do take too much pride in themselves and do not have much pride for others. But I do think everyone should obtain this virute, so I agree with the statement that you are arguing.

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  2. I think that humility is an important virtue to have but do you feel as if too much humbleness might make society as a whole weak? I do however agree with you but feel that the humbling of a prideful individual is very difficult and maybe at times impossible.

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