THE IMPLICATIONS OF HUMILITY IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Bartholomew Chidili

Department of Religious Studies

Kaduna State University, Kaduna

ABSTRACT

At this moment in time when our nation needs to do about-face to attain a desired progressive sustainable development, it becomes necessary for every faculty of human endeavor to contribute its own quota for the desired development. It is against this backdrop that religion as a faculty attempts to suggest the virtue of humility as the source of all enduring development. Accordingly, this paper discusses humility as a virtue that brings about the demeanor that creates a down to earth understanding of oneself that seeks to understand others and God Almighty. It proposes humility as a religious virtue that enables patience, endurance, peace, harmony, negotiated-compromise and peaceful coexistence to sprout, grow and mature enough to empower humans to change their demeanor of pride, arrogance, vainglory, and corruption. It argues that the ultimate change of the mentioned vices gives rise to a sustainable development of any nation. The essay concludes by insisting that by suppressing or completely abrogating the mentioned vices our country will exponentially experience sustainable development.