This Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the various virtues: the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues, as well as the capital vices. It explores the role of ...

Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding ...

Long Beach school district officials gave the green light to a charter school that'll open next year with the mission to teach “intellectual virtues,” a concept with roots in classical Greek ...

Xenocrates' ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology shaped later Platonism, blending reason with virtue and structured philosophical thought.

At first glance, intellectual virtues don’t appear to cultivate a moral foundation in students given their emphasis on cognitive development. However, Baehr argues that without them, we may become ...

The Cardinal Virtues Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, outlines the foundation for the classical understanding of prudence. He views it as an intellectual virtue that enables us to consider ...

Drawing on extensive psychological research, his work in the field of virtue epistemology, and his experience working with teachers and cofounding the Intellectual Virtues Academy, Jason Baehr ...

No walk of life is without the need for insight, discretion and love of truth.” Intellectual virtue concerns “your very character, the kind of person you are and are becoming,” Wood says.

And lastly, classical schools understand this preparation to require formation of character as much as intellect, for the moral and intellectual virtues, though “two in speech,” to borrow a ...