Purpose, humility, civility, and science

Humility, Civility, and Vitality: Papal Leadership at the Turn to the Seventh Century

Humility, Civility, and Vitality: Papal Leadership at the Turn of the Seventh Century

Sheila Jasanoff Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science

Building on recent theories of science in society, such as that provided by the ‘Mode 2’ framework, this paper argues that governments should reconsider existing relations among decision-makers, experts, and citizens in the management of technology. Policy-makers need a set of ‘technologies of humility’ for systematically assessing the unknown and the uncertain. Appropriate focal points for suc...

On humility.

The new professionalism movement in medical education takes seriously the old medical virtues. Perhaps the most difficult virtue to understand and practice is humility, which seems out of place in a medical culture characterized by arrogance, assertiveness, and a sense of entitlement. Countercultural though it is, humility need not suggest weakness or lack of self-confidence. On the contrary, h...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach