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Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge

By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521578264, 0521570603, 9780521570602, 9780521578264
LCC
BD176 .Z34 1996
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21272944 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages
384\195
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics. The book develops the concept of an intellectual virtue, and then shows how the concept can be used to give an account of the major concepts in epistemology, including the concept of knowledge.

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