submission

a.k.a. resignation

I’m thinking “non-defensiveness” here rather than “slavishness” but I don’t know a good word for it.

Complementary virtues¶

• accepting fault
• conciliation
• equanimity
• meekness
• obedience

Contrasting vices¶

• cringing (vice of excess)
• doesn’t know when to quit
• quixotic
• resentfulness
• servility (vice of excess)
• slavishness (vice of excess)
• stubbornness

Virtues possibly in tension¶

• persistence
• pride

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

TBD

Notes and links¶

• LW: Stoicism / Letting Go / Making Peace
• “Three Kinds of Men” (C.S. Lewis)
• LW: Deliberate Grieving

Mentioned elsewhere¶

TBD

Inspirational quotes¶

• “If thou hast done an injury to another, rather own it than defend it… Some oppose honor to submission; but it can be no honor to maintain what it is dishonorable to do. True honor will pay treble damages, rather than justify one wrong by another.” ―William Penn
• “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.” Proverbs 12:1
• “Let Fate find us prepared and active. Here is the great soul: the one who surrenders to Fate. The opposite is the weak and degenerate one, who struggles with and has a poor regard for the order of the world, and seeks to correct the faults of the gods rather than their own.” —Seneca, Moral Letters 107.12