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- Title
Being Judgmental–A vice of attention.
- Authors
Dake, Dan
- Abstract
There are a class of moral virtues that have an intimate relationship with agential evaluation, following Gary Watson we can call these 'second-order virtues,' e.g., modesty, blind charity, being judgmental, etc. Julia Driver has argued that these virtues are distinguished by being virtues which require ignorance. Richard Y. Chappell and Helen Yetter-Chappell have argued that these virtues are distinguished by being virtues of salience. Aside from the disagreement about the distinguishing features of these virtues, there is an intrinsic interest in the second-order virtues and vices. For these virtues and vices play an integral role in moral education and character formation. This paper seeks to deepen that discussion by examining a second-order vice, namely, the vice of being judgmental. I argue that being judgmental requires a salience structure which exhibits undue attention to the negative features of others (pace Jessie Munton). Modeling being judgmental as a vice of attention helps to unify the various characteristics of judgmental persons, namely, a tendency to excessive standing, excessive epitomization, and relational qualification. As an upshot, we receive another reason to adopt an attention model of the second-order virtues and vices.
- Subjects
CARDINAL virtues; PERSONALITY development; MODESTY; VIRTUE; MORAL education; VIRTUE ethics; VIRTUES
- Publication
Journal of Value Inquiry, 2024, Vol 58, Issue 2, p353
- ISSN
0022-5363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10790-022-09894-6