Character traits necessary for right action and correct thinking. They include: intellectual sense of justice, intellectual perseverance, intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual empathy, intellectual courage, confidence in reason, and intellectual autonomy. Intellectual Courage is one of the Intellectual virtues. ...

Aristotle

Aristotle analyzed virtues into moral and intellectual virtues (dianoetic virtues, the Greek aretai dianoetikai). In the Posterior Analytics and Nicomachean Ethics he identified five intellectual virtues - as the five ways the soul arrives at truth by affirmation or denial. He grouped them into three classes: Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. ... Virtue (Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) is moral excellence of a man or a woman. ... Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora) is a text by Aristotle. ... Nicomachean Ethics (sometimes spelled Nichomachean), is a work by Aristotle on virtue and character and plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. ...

• Theoretical:
  • Sophia -i.e. wisdom of the eternal and unchangeable, philosophical wisdom.
  • Episteme -i.e. scientific knowledge, empirical knowledge.
  • Nous -i.e. intuitive understanding.
• Practical:
  • Phronesis -i.e. practical wisdom/prudence.
• Productive:
  • Techne -i.e. craft knowledge, art, skill.

Subjecent intellectual virtues in Aristotle: Look up Sophia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Sophia is a common name that comes from the Greek word σοφία (wisdom), that may refer to: // Spiritual Sophia (goddess), wisdom Sophia (gnosticism), a gnostic deity The Sophia of Jesus Christ, gnostic tractate from Nag Hammadi Pistis Sophia Women named Sophia Sophia Kang... As distinguished from techne, the Greek word episteme (literally: science) is often translated as knowledge. ... Nous (Νους) is a Greek word that corresponds to the English words intelligence, intellect, or mind. ... Phronesis is a term used by Aristotle in Nicomachean ethics to describe practical wisdom or the ability to act on what one knows are good for man. ... As distinguished from episteme, the Greek word techne (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. ...

• Euboulia. Deliberating well, deliberative excellence. Thinking properly about the right end.
• Sunesis. Understanding, sagacity, consciousness of why something is as it is. - e.g the understanding you have of why a situation is as it is, prior to having phronesis - understanding of what to do about it -i.e what is the best action.
• Gnomê. Judgement and consideration. Virtue which allows people to make equitable or fair decisions.
• Deinotes. Cleverness. The ability to carry out actions so as to achieve a goal.

References

• Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Book VI.
• Thomas Hobbes On Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan. Chapter VIII: Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
• R. M. Paul Critical thinking: What every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing world, (Rev. 2nd ed.). Santa Rosa, CA: Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1992.
• Michael DePaul et Linda Zagzebski, Intellectual Virtue, Oxford, Oxford U. Press. 2003.

See also

• Intellectual dishonesty
• Critical thinking
• Paideia
• Virtue ethics
• Epistemic virtue

Intellectual dishonesty nothing in this topic. ... are you kiddin ? i was lookin for it for hours ... To the ancient Greeks, Paideia was the process of educating man into his true form, the real and genuine human nature. ... In philosophy, the phrase virtue ethics refers to ethical systems that focus primarily on what sort of person one should try to be. ... The epistemic virtues, as identified by virtue epistemologists, reflect their contention that belief is an ethical process, and thus susceptible to the intellectual virtue or vice of ones thought life. ...

External links

• Virtue Epistemology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Critical Thinking Glossary: An Educator's Guide to Critical Thinking Terms and Concept