Human Development
Meekness
Description:
The meek person surrenders his immediate interests, not only counting it "better to suffer than to do wrong" (Plato) but by not resisting evil, by refraining from self-assertion. No longer locked in his own ego, he is at one with the Almighty. According to Christian ethics, moral perfection is achieved through humblemindedness, gentleness, consideration for others, reverence, humility, and self respect without vanity, all of which together may be defined as meekness. Usually compared with anger (one of the seven deadly sins) or, as Aristotle put it, in the mean position with respect to anger, meekness is extolled in the Beatitudes - "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth". This is not simply passivity, since righteous anger is not condemned, but the absence of the sin of anger, misdirected anger.Related:
Passivity