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.
|