Aristotle on Intellectual Virtues -From the Viewpoint of Virtue Epistemology-

Year 2016, Issue: 63, 20 - 47, 15.07.2016

Kemal Batak

Abstract

In this article, I examine in detail Aristotle’s five intellectual virtues
and their relationship with moral virtues. From these five intellectual virtues,
while art and practical wisdom is concerned with calculative part of the
soul, scientific knowledge, intuitive reason and philosophical wisdom that
consist of these two virtues are concerned with the scientific part of soul.
Complex relations between intellectual virtues or states and moral virtues
are extremely important. For one can have a real moral virtue only if he or
she is governed by an intellectual virtue. On the other hand, Aristotle who
is one of the sources of contemporary virtue epistemology, explains and justifies knowledge by means of cognitive abilities or intellectual virtues.
Ernest Sosa who is one of the leading champions of contemporary virtue
epistemology also revives epistemology in question firstly by means of the
concept of intellectual virtue.

Keywords

Virtue, intellectual virtues, moral virtues, happiness, virtue epistemology, Aristotle

ARİSTOTELES'TE ENTELEKTÜEL ERDEMLER -BİR ERDEM EPİSTEMOLOJİSİ ÖRNEĞİ-

Abstract

Bu makalede Aristoteles’in beş entelektüel erdemini, bu erdemlerin
ahlaki erdemlerle ilişkisini incelenmektedir. Aristoteles’in beş entelektüel
erdeminden sanat ve pratik bilgelik, ruhun hesapla ilgili parçası ile ilgili
iken bilimsel bilgi, sezgisel akıl ve bu ikisinin toplamından oluşan felsefi
bilgelik, ruhun bilimsel parçası ile ilgilidir. Ruhun bu hallerinin, erdemlerinin
ahlaki erdemlerle karmaşık ilişkisi de son derece önemlidir; zira
kişi gerçek ahlaki erdeme ancak bir entelektüel erdemin yönetiminde sahip
olabilir. Öte yandan, çağdaş erdem epistemolojisinin kaynaklarından olan
Aristoteles de bilgiyi epistemik erdemler, bilişsel yetiler ya da entelektüel
erdemler yoluyla açıklar ve gerekçelendirir. Çağdaş erdem epistemolojisinin
savunucularından Ernest Sosa da bu epistemolojiyi ilk olarak entelektüel
erdem kavramı yoluyla gündeme taşımıştır.

Keywords

Erdem, entelektüel erdemler, ahlaki erdemler, mutluluk, erdem epistemolojisi, Aristoteles

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