- Whether humility is a part of modesty or temperance?
Whether humility is a part of modesty or temperance?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that humility is not a part of modesty or temperance. For humility regards chiefly the reverence whereby one is subject to God, as stated above (Article [3]). Now it belongs to a theological virtue to have God for its object. Therefore humility should be reckoned a theological virtue rather than a part of temperance or modesty.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, temperance is in the concupiscible, whereas humility would seem to be in the irascible, just as pride which is opposed to it, and whose object is something difficult. Therefore apparently humility is not a part of temperance or modesty.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, humility and magnanimity are about the same object, as stated above (Article [1], ad 3). But magnanimity is reckoned a part, not of temperance but of fortitude, as stated above (Question [129], Article [5]). Therefore it would seem that humility is not a part of temperance or modesty.