The Place of the Intellectual Virtues in Exemplarist Virtue Theory
The attempt to “turning to virtue” in contemporary moral philosophy has been evaluated from different perspectives and various virtue theories have been suggested. One of these suggestions belongs to Linda T. Zagzebski, one of the prominent names with her studies in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. In her work entitled Virtues of the Mind Zagzebski proposed to position epistemology as a branch of ethics and classified intellectual virtues as types of moral virtues. In her later works on virtue ethics, she proposed a theory based on emotions, motivation, and exemplars of moral goodness as an alternative to action-based deontological and consequentialist moral theories. This study outlines Zagzebski's exemplarist virtue ethics and seeks an answer to the question of whether there are reflections in this theory on her claim in Virtues of the Mind. Specifically, this study focuses on how Zagzebski positions intellectual virtues while constructing virtue ethics.
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