 Dependent Virtue: Slote (1983, 61ff) notes that modesty is a dependent virtue. One is modest about something else that is good, about their success or intelligence. In this sense, modesty requires the existence of another good quality. This is typically taken to be something objectively good rather than simply something that the person thinks is good, though most views can accommodate either intuition. Most views assume that the good quality in question is a good quality of the person who is modest, though Bommarito (2013, 94) broadens the scope to allow modesty about the good qualities in others when they reflect on us, as when one is modest about the achievements of their child, nation, or local sports teams. Others, such as Ben-Ze’ev (1993) and Um (forthcoming), go further and deny that modesty is a dependent virtue at all.