Synopsis
LLM-authored synopsis Not an articleThis page's single linked conjecture asks a pointed question: does a virtue that is supposed to apply equally to everyone actually get written about differently depending on how socially important the author is? The underlying doctrine is Aquinas's account of humility: it keeps a person's ambitions in check, stopping them from reaching for honours beyond their real standing, and holds them instead to their true place before God -- for Aquinas, one of the load-bearing virtues of the whole Christian moral life.
Humility is spelled by rank tests the idea from the outside in: whether the way humility gets discussed or displayed in surviving texts actually varies by the writer's own social rank, which would mean a virtue meant to be universal left a measurably unequal documentary trace.
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