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Sensitivity vs. humility
Our friend Peter Berkowitz on "the virtues of toleration and intellectual humility":
our students and faculty need to learn to be less sensitive. Instead, they need to develop the virtues of toleration and intellectual humility. The cultivation of sensitivity sharpens antennae for hurtful words and ideas, and encourages complaining whenever they sting. In contrast, toleration, particularly at universities, means suffering with equanimity the expression of disagreeable, even odious, opinions, provided that they are subject to reasoned analysis. The cultivation of humility fosters respect for others and their opinions and a willingness to follow logic, evidence, and experience -- to consider that one might be wrong and to find in others' errors the occasion for improving one's own understanding.
The whole article is well-worth reading.
Posted by David Azerrad on May 11, 2010 at May 11, 2010 03:15 PM
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