Humility, as opposed to pride, is generally accounted a virtue, particularly in Christian religious traditions which label pride one of the seven deadly sins. In today's political climate, humility is often regarded as a worthwhile anodyne to narcissism, overweening vanity, and unwarranted self-confidence.

However, the vices just referred to need not be interpreted as the consequences of a deficiency in humility. We could instead see them as manifestations of the wrong kind of pride: unjustified or excessive pride, or pride over things for which one isn't in fact responsible.

When considered as a Humean emotion, humility can similarly be felt toward or about the wrong things, or for the wrong reasons.As a disposition, it can involve the inculcation of inap­propriate habits. And the account which makes contentions about there being a downside to humility most apparent is that ventured in Book II of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. We will argue that disability becomes interesting within the context of this account, because Hume discusses the experience of being humbled by alterations in one's physical capacity in terms of its power to shape one's overall disposition.With this argument in place, we shall dem­onstrate that the relations among disability, humility, and disposition suggested in Hume's writ­ing gain greater clarity and nuance when interpreted from the standpoint of recent scholarship in disability studies and on the topic of epistemic injustice.

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