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Intellectual servility and timidity

Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. Journal of Philosophical Research 43 , pp. 21-41. 10.5840/jpr201872120

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Abstract

ntellectual servility is a vice opposing proper pride about one’s intellectual achievements. Intellectual timidity is also a vice; it is manifested in a lack of proper concern for others’ esteem. This paper offers an account of the nature of these vices and details some of the epistemic harms that flow from them. I argue that servility, which is often the result of suffering humiliation, is a form of damaged self-esteem. It is underpinned by attitudes serving social-adjustive functions and causes ingratiating behaviors. Timidity, which is habituated through self-silencing, is underpinned by negative attitudes toward the intellectual worth of the self, which serve a defensive function. Like servility, timidity is an obstacle to the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and especially knowledge about oneself.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
ISSN: 1053-8364
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 24 May 2018
Date of Acceptance: 24 May 2018
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2023 18:09
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/111740

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