Explicit

Humility and Fitness

Explicit

Fitness in Philosophy by James Fitzgerald and Robby Gustin

Episode notes

In this episode James and Robby explore the connection between humility and fitness.

Humility is an admission of one's own limitations.

Fitness, by its very nature involves encountering one's own limitations in the physical world.

For example if someone can't do a pull-up or run 3 miles continuously that typically involves them eating a slice of humble-pie, in a good way.

In this episode they ask and try to answer the following questions about humility and its connection with fitness.

-Is fitness a means of achieving or furthering the virtue of humility in one’s own life?

-How does fitness teach humility?

-What are similarities and differences between physical humility (humility about one’s own physical capabilities) and intellectual humility?

- Every profession has its own share of arrogant jerks,  ... 

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