It’s time to talk about some practical benefits of humility. Sure, it’s logical, beautiful and has an interesting history, but what does it do? How does it help? At one level, this question may seem out of place: surely, virtue is its own reward and humility should be practised for its own sake, not for the sake of some material or social outcome. John Macmurray, former professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and one of the twentieth-century’s leading