Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance

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 intelle...

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Main Author: YIP, Brandon
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-53212024-10-24T09:41:59Z Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance YIP, Brandon 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. 2024-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4063 info:doi/10.1111/phpr.13117 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5321/viewcontent/Yip_IntellectualHumilityWithoutLimits_pvoa_cc_nc_nd.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Humility Intellectual Humility Assertion Knowledge Disagreement Epistemology of Resistance Philosophy
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topic Humility
Intellectual Humility
Assertion
Knowledge
Disagreement
Epistemology of Resistance
Philosophy
spellingShingle Humility
Intellectual Humility
Assertion
Knowledge
Disagreement
Epistemology of Resistance
Philosophy
YIP, Brandon
Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
description 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.
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title Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
title_short Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
title_full Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
title_fullStr Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
title_full_unstemmed Intellectual humility without limits: Magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
title_sort intellectual humility without limits: magnanimous humility, disagreement and the epistemology of resistance
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2024
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4063
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