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Encyclopedia > Virtus

In Roman mythology, Virtus was the god of bravery and military strength. His Greek equivalent was Arete. Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. ...


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virtue (2853 words)
virtues may be classified according to this twofold function of the mental faculty.
virtue it is to be distinguished, at least logically, from the faculty of intelligence.
virtues as it resides not in the appetitive powers but in the intellect, its proper act being, not the choice of apt means, but the direction of that choice.
Virtue Epistemology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (6365 words)
Virtue epistemology is a collection of recent approaches to epistemology that give epistemic or intellectual virtue concepts an important and fundamental role.
Some virtue responsibilists (e.g., Zagzebski 1996) have argued that the character traits of interest to them are the intellectual counterpart to what Aristotle and other moral philosophers have regarded as the moral virtues and that these traits are therefore properly regarded as intellectual virtues.
Virtue reliabilists are concerned with traits that are a critical means to intellectual well-being or “flourishing” and virtue responsibilists with traits that are both a means to and are partly constitutive of intellectual flourishing.
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