Author

Brandon YIP

Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2024

Abstract

In this paper, I provide a characterisation of a neglected form of humility: magnanimous humility. Unlike most contemporary analyses of humility, magnanimous humility is not about limitations but instead presupposes that one possesses some entitlement in a context. I suggest that magnanimous intellectual humility (IH) consists in a disposition to appropriately refrain from exercising one's legitimate epistemic entitlements because one is appropriately motivated to pursue some epistemic good. I then shown that Magnanimous IH has an important role to play in contexts of disagreement and oppression. It calls on knowing parties to refrain from pressing their epistemic entitlements to facilitate mutual understanding. And it is a virtue that oppressed persons have good reason to cultivate in order to develop meta-lucidity in themselves and others.

Keywords

Humility, Intellectual Humility, Assertion, Knowledge, Disagreement, Epistemology of Resistance

Discipline

Philosophy

Publication

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

First Page

1

Last Page

19

ISSN

0031-8205

Identifier

10.1111/phpr.13117

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Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.13117

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