‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility

• Main Author: Clemente, Noel L
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: Intellectual humility; modeling intellectual virtues; self-attribution paradox; Arts and Humanities; Education; Epistemology; Philosophy; Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/91; https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2161859
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

There’s something paradoxical with a person saying ‘I am humble’; it doesn’t seem so humble to self-attribute humility in general, and intellectual humility in particular. In light of the recent interest in educating for intellectual virtues, this paradox has interesting implications to educating fo...