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Synthese (2014) 191:37793801
DOI 10.1007/s11229-014-0511-5
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Received: 18 June 2014 / Accepted: 18 June 2014 / Published online: 15 July 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Abstract Much recent work in virtue epistemology has focused on the analysis of such intellectual virtues as responsibility, conscientiousness, honesty, courage, open-mindedness, rmness, humility, charity, and wisdom. Absent from the literature is an extended examination of perseverance as an intellectual virtue. The present paper aims to ll this void. In Sect. 1, I clarify the concept of an intellectual virtue, and distinguish intellectual virtues from other personal traits and properties. In Sect. 2, I provide a conceptual analysis of intellectually virtuous perseverance that places perseverance in opposition to its vice-counterparts, intransigence and irresolution. The virtue is a matter of continuing in ones intellectual activities for an appropriate amount of time, in the pursuit of intellectual goods, despite obstacles to ones attainment of those goods. In Sect. 3, I explore relations between intellectually virtuous perseverance and other intellectual virtues. I argue that such perseverance is necessary for the possession and exercise of several other intellectual virtues, including courage. These connections highlight the importance of perseverance in a comprehensive account of such virtues.
Keywords Perseverance Intellectual virtue Intellectual vice
Virtue epistemology Intellectual courage
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0418-1
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A signicant number of unfortunate errors have been identied in the above mentioned article. The full corrected article is republished on the following pages and should be treated as denitive by the reader, replacing the earlier version.
N. L. King (B)
Philosophy Department, Lindaman Center, Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd., Spokane, WA 99251, USAe-mail: [email protected]
Erratum to: Perseverance as an intellectual virtue
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Erratum to: SyntheseDOI 10.1007/s11229-014-0418-1
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.Plutarch
Intellectual perseverance pervades the history of inquiry. Thomas Edison endured years of work and thousands of failures in his quest to develop the incandescent light bulb. Booker T. Washington overcame slavery, racism, and poverty in order to gain an education and disseminate his political views. Helen Keller overcame blindness and deafness...