Avoiding the conflation of moral and intellectual virtues. Which intellectual virtues are central to education. From theory to practice 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, openmindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual honesty. Dow shows how intellectual virtues like tenacity, carefulness and curiosity are teachable traits that can produce good lives. Learn intellectual virtues with free interactive flashcards. Avoiding the conflation of moral and intellectual virtues springerlink. Intellectual virtues posted on august 3, 2012 by marklangley it is in knowledge as it is in swimming, he who ostentatiously sports and flounders on the surface makes more noise and splashing, and attracts more attention than the industrious pearl diver, who plunges in search of treasures to the bottom. Intellectual virtues in nicomachean ethics book 6 aristotles distinctions between different kinds of intellectual excellence or virtue he examines in n. Why should we educate for inquisitiveness lani watson 4. On intellectual virtues and virtue epistemology oxford university press, 2011.
A focus on intellectual humility article pdf available in the journal of positive psychology 105. This conference will bring together education theorists, psychologists, and philosophers to discuss intellectual virtues and their role in educational theory and practice. Ethically virtuous activity is included in human well. Character strengths and virtues is a groundbreaking handbook compiling the work of researchers to create a classification system for widely valued positive traits. Moral and intellectual virtues in western and chinese philosophy. However, it is possible to educate in ways that are intentionally and systematically aimed at this goal. Some virtues are said to be intellectual because they govern the use of the intellectual faculty with which we are endowed. This paper aims to analyse how the aristotelian theory of the intellectual virtues nicomachean. Educating for intellectual humility ian james kidd 5. Institute for the study of human flourishing virtues intellectual virtues intellectual humility. For hume virtues are character traits that are useful and agreeable to ourselves and to others. The intellectual virtues include two seemingly quite different types of traits. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Openmindedness, insight, and understanding wayne d.
Understanding different interpretations, analyzing challenging texts, and asking provocative questions requires a growth mindset that can be traced directly back to each. For example, intellectual courage is a mean between intellectual rashness and cowardice. Sterken and in accordance with the decision by the college of deans. And he offers assurance that intellectual life can be a true calling for christians. Intellectual virtues heather battaly, cal state fullerton this is a penultimate draft. Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Aquinas answer to this question starts from the following principle. The intellectual virtues volume 69 issue 270 neil cooper.
Pdf aristotle handout intellectual virtues in nicomachean ethics. Good education always inspires growth in intellectual virtues like curiosity, openmindedness, and intellectual courage. Philosophy news educating for intellectual virtues. Intellectual virtues copy 2 the philosophy foundation. Download pdf intellectual character book full free. In this category we focus on openmindedness, love of learning, and intellectual humility. You may also notice that critical thinking skills are absent, this is because the intellectual virtues have. The intellectual virtues philosophy cambridge core. An online resource for teachers, scholars, students, and others interested in learning about or practicing an intellectual virtues approach to education. Intellectual virtues good habits of the mind, enabling it to be a more efficient instrument of knowledge.
They include curiosity, wonder, attentiveness, intellectual perseverance, openmindedness, creativity, intellectual courage, intellectual rigor. Intellectual humility humility in general is the virtue of facing up to the truth about oneselfneither overvaluing nor undervaluing ones abilities and accomplishments. 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. Specifically, kant identifies a serious intellectual vice that threatens to undermine reason, namely enthusiasm. On intellectual virtues and virtue epistemology english isbn.
Pdf intellectual virtue and ability are potentially wideranging explanatory. The relative role of the intellectual and moral virtues in. The answers i defend draw heavily from recent research within virtue epistemology on intellectual character virtues like curiosity, open. The moral and intellectual virtues according chart of. Pdf metacognition and intellectual virtue researchgate. Extant virtue theories do not appear to have provided a single account that adequately covers both types of virtue. Intellectual virtues what are intellectual virtues.
One of the most pressing challenges facing virtue theorists is the conflation problem. The intellectual virtues institute will be held from june 24 27, 2019 first session in long beach, california. Intellectual character available for download and read online in other formats. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. Essays in applied virtue epistemology routledge, 2016. In the nicomachean ethics, intellectual contemplation is the central case of human well. They are crossreferenced to show their interdependence.
Implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices. Less has been accomplished on the question of what is characteristic of intellectual virtues or abilities, and more specifically, what distinguishes intellectual. Applying virtue epistemology to education jason baehr 2. A comprehensive resource guide for educators who want to cultivate excellent student minds. He shows you how to cultivate intellectual virtues and disciplineshabits of mindthat will strengthen you in pursuit of your calling. Intellectual character development ebook 9780830884339 by philip e.
Click download or read online button to get character strengths and virtues book now. While they intersect with moral and civic virtues in interesting ways, it is important to maintain a distinction between intellectual virtues and these other types of virtues. From theory to practice 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 virtueslike curiosity, openmindedness, intellectual courage, and. Aristotle nicomachean ethics 6 the intellectual virtues. Skepticism and intellectual humility as a civic virtue allan hazlett ii. You cant have too much of these, only too little to be really happy. Intellectual virtues are different from and shouldnt be confused with other kinds of cognitive strengths, including raw intelligence or intellectual skills baehr 2011. Pdf implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices. Other articles where intellectual virtue is discussed. Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, roberts and wood have developed an approach they call regulative epistemology this is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of lockes and descartess concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has. Pdf aristotles virtue ethics as a conceptual framework. Humility stands between undue selfdeprecation and arrogance, and so on.
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Intellectual humility in the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so. The four dimensions of an intellectual virtue semantic scholar. Although he may not be a virtue epistemologist in a strict sense, i suggest that intellectual virtues and vices play a key role in his epistemology. The intellectual virtues nicomachean ethics, book vi in three. I argue that hume is a virtue epistemologist, principally interested in the role that intellectual character. This thesis will be defended in public on thursday 17 may 2018 at 12. Aristotle, nicomachean ethics 6 the intellectual virtues phil 769 dr. With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational. Contemporary virtue ethics focus on the agents moral character and not on specific actionguiding rules, and likewise virtue epistemology.
Kant typically is not identified with the tradition of virtue epistemology. The intellectual virtues share in an important partnership with historical study and ultimately form the basis of what it means to think like a historian and social scientist. Character strengths and virtues download ebook pdf, epub. Julia driver has argued that only an outcomesbased understanding of virtue can provide an adequate solution to the conflation problem. You may be able to develop an assessment tool for these competencies using this list.
Aristotles virtue ethics as a conceptual framework for the study and practice of social work in modern times. Section i summarizes aristotles analysis of intellectual virtue ne. Such traits are wideranging, from moral virtues such as benevolence to intellectual virtues such as courage of mind and penetration. Executive virtues are important for individual achievements of any kind, including the development of other virtues. We focus on the virtues of selfregulation, perseverance, and. I then go on to discuss several pedagogical and related strategies for achieving this aim.
More precisely, this guide is for college and university instructors interested in teaching their respective subject matterswhatever these might bein ways that. The more you have of them, the better offthe happier you are. This handbook also intends to provide an empirical theoretical framework that will assist positive psychology practitioners in developing practical applications for the field. Institute for the study of human flourishing virtues intellectual virtues openmindedness. As with other forms of virtue, being a person of intellectual virtue being intellectually virtuous requires not only possessing but also balancing individual intellectual virtues, e. Edited collections intellectual virtues and education. The intellectual virtues concern the rational part of the soul, are methods by which people arrive at truth, and come in two categories. Insofar as the cultivation of intellectually virtuous character is a desirable educational objective, we should educate. This problem concerns the difficulty of explaining the distinction between different types of virtue, such as the distinction between moral virtues and intellectual virtues. Openmindedness there exist limitless opportunities in every industry. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of responsibilist virtue epistemology, like curiosity, openmindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity, can help educators and students define and attain certain worthy but nebulous educational goals like a love of learning, lifelong learning, and critical thinking. Aristotle considered intellectual virtues as superior to.
Intellectual virtues enable the pursuit of truth, wisdom and understanding. Intellectual virtues and education routledge studies in. Pdf the platonic conception of intellectual virtues. Wed like to understand how you use our websites in order to improve them. Economic consequences of personality, knowledge, and intellectual virtues phd thesis to obtain the degree of phd at the university of groningen on the authority of the rector magnificus prof. For further reading for those wanting more on the intellectual virtues, this book is the place to start. In this list critical thinking skills are captured under virtue 20. Intellectual virtues, by contrast, are the character strengths of a good thinker or learner e. This virtue also involves admitting the limits of ones epistemic perspective. Intellectual virtues are qualities of mind and character that promote intellectual flourishing, critical thinking, and the pursuit of truth. Interestingly, while the chief intellectual virtues five are enumerated and commented one by one with no intention of exhaustiveness, he gives only some examples of moral virtues. They are distinguished from the moral virtues, since they do not, as such, make one a.