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Docility

August 18, 2019 by admin

“Docility is the observable half of reason”

-George Santayana

Definition

  • The willingness to be taught (EdInVir)
  • Quiet and easy to influence or guide (Cambridge)

Vices

  • Excess: Weakness, gullibility to unreasonable authority
  • Deficiency: Stubbornness, inability to learn from reasonable authority

Example:

Listening to instruction when learning about a new job
Related Virtues: Accepting, Accountability, Ambition, Compliant, Deference

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