Uneasy Virtue
The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver challenges this classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues which do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Some ‘virtues of ignorance’ are counterexamples to accounts of virtue which hold that moral virtue must involve practical wisdom. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue even though the…
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Weitere Autoren: Dancy, Jonathan (Hrsg.) / Sosa, Ernest (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03406-7
- EAN: 9780521034067
- Produktnummer: 2803808
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 242 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 242
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