Is Humility Good Or Evil?

Is Humility Good or Evil? A Tract Book Essay By Anthony J. Fejfar, J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar

In the Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Question 161, Thomas Aquinas takes the position the humility is a virtue, or good. I argue on the other hand, that the only humility is false humility and that humility is evil. Now, for the human being to be moved to act, the intellect or the emotions must move the will and then the will moves the body. I argue that one cannot have a strong intellect without having a positive sense of Self-esteem or Self-confidence. Self-confidence is the virtue which should be extolled, not humility. On the other hand, it is equally true that a puffed up sense of egoistic pride is also evil and non-productive and should be avoided. The True Self of the Holy Spirit produces Self-confidence. Without Self-confidence the Holy Spirit could not operate. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love Justice and Equality and to hate injustice and conventional morality and conventional authority. One cannot be competent at what one

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does, vocationally, without Self-confidence. Self-confidence and the Holy Spirit abhors humility and obedience to conventional authority. I have never met a person who is genuinely humble, but rather, have only met hypocrites who pretend humility. Humility needs to be replaced with Self-confidence. Pride needs to be replaced with Self-confidence. This should be our goal.

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