Question 161 — Humility

We must consider next the species of modesty: (1) Humility, and pride which is opposed to it; (2) Studiousness, and its opposite, Curiosity; (3) Modesty as affecting words or deeds; (4) Modesty as affecting outward attire.

Concerning humility there are six points of inquiry:

(1) Whether humility is a virtue?

• (2) Whether it resides in the appetite, or in the judgment of reason?
• (3) Whether by humility one ought to subject oneself to all men?
• (4) Whether it is a part of modesty or temperance?
• (5) Of its comparison with the other virtues;
• (6) Of the degrees of humility.