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What are intellectual virtues? “Intellectual virtues are the character traits of a good thinker or learner.”1. “Intellectual character is the part of your character—your dispositions to act, think, and feel—that pertains to thinking and learning.”. The intellectual virtues are distinct from the moral and civic virtues.
JASON BAEHR. After a brief overview of what intellectual virtues are, I offer three arguments for the claim that education should aim at fostering ‘intellectual character virtues’ like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual honesty.
Intellectual virtues are the deep personal qualities or character strengths of a good thinker or learner. They include qualities like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity. Intellectual virtues differ from natural cognitive abilities like raw intelligence or IQ.
7 kwi 2023 · Values are internalised cognitive frameworks that help people make decisions by instilling a feeling of fundamental moral standards, a sense of priorities, and a propensity to interpret...
We propose a concept of intellectual values as (a) shared within a group and defined by the extent to which intellectual engagement is regarded as worthwhile to the group’s interests, (b) supported by an epistemological belief system, and (c) an important dimension of sociocultural practice and learning.
31 gru 2005 · We propose a concept of intellectual values as (a) shared within a group and defined by the extent to which intellectual engagement is regarded as worthwhile to the group's interests, (b)...
In other words, intellectual virtues are qualities that make us excellent (and not defective) as thinkers, not (or not simply) as people in general. This bibliography provides an overview of philosophical work on the intellectual virtues.
