...Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal, or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth...

... Parameshwar Ankersmit Frank Democracy Humility Classical realism Niebuhr We obstinately hold to the language of democratic and liberal principles in order to preserve these principles–I believe that we are sincere–but it seems to me also that we speak this language in order to preserve the ideological...

..., and also reports the connections between humility, folly and the conditions for being taken seriously as a lover. ‘Comedy’ in Love's Labour's Lost is social comedy, its target being Renaissance rhetoric and the exhilarating possibilities and dangers inherent in the encouragement...

..., the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. The book offers new ways of understanding...

...The introduction maps the literary, philosophical and theological contexts that make humility and humiliation mutually intelligible. Challenging the conception of humility in contemporary virtue ethics and social theory, it explores the performance and expressions of humility in Eliot and Beckett...

...The conclusion reflects on the differences between Eliot’s and Beckett’s respective handling of humility and humiliation. This leads to a broader discussion about the interpretive difficulties of deciphering performances of humility. Beckett Samuel works Eliot T S Poems and plays Monty Python’s...

...This chapter translates the Treatise of Hatim, and discusses the content of the treatise that focuses on Hatim،s life. It particularly discusses Hatim's manifestation of his jamanwardi to the poor and the lowly members of the society; his humility, kindness...

... Xerxes 7 44–56 7 208–12 8 115–20 humility luxury uncertainty of human life 1 90–1 overdetermination 3 33 6 75–84 1 7 133 7 137 8 129 coincidences as a sign of divine involvement fate jealousy of the divine Phylarchus punishment Timaeus of Tauromenium 1 31 1–3 1 91 2–3 7 12–19 7 190...

... in royal iconography to support and strengthen the claim of the Ottoman dynasty to rule: through manifestations of royal benevolence, piety, magnificence and humility, concern for their subjects’ welfare, and support for the decorative arts. These manifestations range from the tomb’s religious inscriptions...

... feminine wisdom Sufism theoeroticism ecumenism Rumi hospitality humility pilgrim intercultural tropes Teresa Sampsonia Sherley Destiny is recognizing the radiance of the soul that, even when faced with human impossibility, loves all of life. – Marion Woodman, Bone: A Journal of Wisdom...