Summa Theologiae by St Thomas Aquinas
SS: Treatise On Fortitude And Temperance
Q161 Of Humility
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We must consider next the species of modesty: (1) Humility, and pride which is opposed to it; (2) Studiousness, and its opposite, Curiosity; (3) Modesty as affecting words or deeds; (4) Modesty as affecting outward attire.

Concerning humility there are six points of inquiry:

A1 Whether humility is a virtue?

A2 Whether it resides in the appetite, or in the judgment of reason?

A3 Whether by humility one ought to subject oneself to all men?

A4 Whether it is a part of modesty or temperance?

A5 Of its comparison with the other virtues;

A6 Of the degrees of humility.

 
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