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9 lip 1999 · For virtue ethics the relevant properties are moral traits, and for VE intellectual traits. Beyond those basic central tendencies, we find great diversity in the field. Four main issues divide practitioners. The first concerns the nature and scope of intellectual virtues (section 3).
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18 lip 2003 · A virtue ethicist might choose to define one of these—for example, the best action—in terms of virtues and vices, but appeal to other normative concepts—such as legitimate expectations—when defining other conceptions of right action.
A firmer grasp of the field of virtue epistemology can be achieved by considering, for each branch of virtue epistemology, how some of its main proponents have conceived of the nature of an intellectual virtue and how they have employed virtue concepts in their theories.
Intellectual virtues are qualities that make us excellent thinkers. There are different analyses of exactly which qualities count as intellectual virtues: virtue responsibilists have emphasized praiseworthy character traits, such as open-mindedness and intellectual humility, while virtue reliabilists have emphasized reliable skills and ...
30 mar 2019 · According to Aristotle, the two primary intellectual virtues are philosophical wisdom (sophia) and practical wisdom (phronesis). Practical wisdom involves an awareness of the particulars while philosophical wisdom involves the highest objects of knowledge which are not human affairs (EN, 1141b1–7).
4 maj 2022 · This essential appeal to cognitive skills and faculties as part of a theory of knowledge is known as virtue epistemology, and so it will be useful to differentiate how virtues in this broader sense relate to the intellectual virtues, not least in terms of their relationship to knowledge.
6 gru 2017 · After distinguishing between two fundamentally different conceptions of intellectual virtue, the author considers the plausibility, with respect to each conception, of the “binary thesis,” according to which the proper aim of intellectual virtues is true belief and the avoidance of cognitive error. The author goes on to argue that if one ...