Humility is often praised as a virtue. Yet every definition of it still orbits around the self, a quiet form of ego in disguise. They say Humility is the quality of not thinking you are better than others and having an accurate, modest view of your own importance. But that definition still orbits around the self. It assumes the self is a scale to be measured; high or low, superior or inferior. The word which originated from Latin word humilitas , meaning "lowliness," that is related to the adjective humilis and the Latin word humus , that means "earth" or "ground". This reveals why and what was it coined for; to recognize lowliness and humbleness as moral virtues for individual's ability to foster self-awareness, respect for others, and ethical conduct; yet this moral framing hides a contradiction. Thinking lowly of oneself is not a virtue. From its linguistic roots to its moral use, humility was meant to ground man — but the act of grounding became...