🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧠 Different intellectual virtues serve the motives of seeking truth and avoiding falsehood. 01:19 🚶♀️ Intellectual virtues of caution involve being attentive, thorough, and persevering in forming beliefs carefully. 03:31 🤝 Intellectual virtues build trust within communities, making individuals worthy of intellectual trust and preventing societal breakdown. 04:53 🔍 Intellectual virtues are crucial for informed citizenship and public discourse, fostering a well-functioning society.
I think it is important to talk about epistemic intellectual virtues rather than intellectual virtues simpliciter, because one may suffer from intellectual pride but pursue knowledge under the guidance of all the virtues of epistemic intellectual humility. In the story of the Fall, the search for the knowledge of good and evil can be assumed to take place under all epistemic intellectual virtues, and yet, this research took place for the sake of becoming 'god'. Sooner or later, however, pride will obscure and derail all epistemic intellectual virtues. Epistemic vices are the result of pride.
