L’orgoglio, l’umiltà e le loro vicissitudini: Un approccio psicologico [Pride, humility, and their vicissitudes: A psychological approach]

Saroglou, Vassilis
(2010) La lotta spirituale nella tradizione spirituale ortodossa [The spiritual fight in the Orthodox tradition] — ISBN: [978-88-8227-313-2], 137-163, published

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In the ascetic literature, pride and humility are considered as the mother of all vices and virtues, respectively. Moreover, working on virtues, including humility, may feed pride. The present work introduces in the debate recent research in moral and personality psychology that has investigated narcissism, self-esteem, modesty, and humility. The paper has three objectives. First, to examine the pertinence of the ascetic literature (especially John Climacus) when considering the multiple dimensions of pride and humility: relation to self, others, and God. Second, to examine whether the religious valorization of humility does translate into real modesty and humility in believers’ attitudes and behavior. Third, to propose clues that allow to consider with serenity the spiritual fight against pride in a way to avoid vicissitudes that are inherent to this fight, i.e. covert narcissism, de-responsibility, excessive guilt, false humility, and compensatory egoistic altruism.
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Saroglou, V. (2010). L’orgoglio, l’umiltà e le loro vicissitudini: Un approccio psicologico [Pride, humility, and their vicissitudes: A psychological approach]. In E. Bianchi et al. (Eds. and Trans.) (ed.), La lotta spirituale nella tradizione spirituale ortodossa [The spiritual fight in the Orthodox tradition] (pp. 137-163). Edizioni Qiqajon. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60376