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- Title
A Dilemma for Driver on Virtues of Ignorance.
- Authors
Dolin, Josh
- Abstract
For Julia Driver, some virtues involve ignorance. Modesty, for example, is a disposition to underestimate self-worth, and blind charity is a disposition not to see others' defects. Such "virtues of ignorance," she argues, serve as counterexamples to the Aristotelian view that virtue requires intellectual excellence. But Driver seems to face a dilemma: if virtues of ignorance involve ignorance of valuable knowledge, then they do not merit virtue status; but if they involve ignorance of trivial knowledge, then they do not preclude intellectual excellence. So, either there are no virtues of ignorance, or there are no virtues of ignorance – at least not the sort of ignorance that precludes intellectual excellence. Virtues of ignorance therefore fail as counterexamples to Aristotelian virtue theory.
- Subjects
SELF-esteem; IGNORANCE (Theory of knowledge); STEREOTYPES; HETEROGENEITY; SOCIAL context
- Publication
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 5, p889
- ISSN
1386-2820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10677-020-10110-2