Linda Zagzebski Quotes
Linda Zagzebski is an American philosopher, George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and one of the leading contemporary theorists of virtue epistemology and philosophy of religion. Virtues of the Mind grounded epistemology in a unified theory of intellectual and moral virtues, in which knowledge is the product of acts of intellectual virtue, while her later Epistemic Authority and Exemplarist Moral Theory developed a moral epistemology in which our access to moral truth is mediated through admiration for moral exemplars. The quotes below are attributed to Linda Zagzebski, organized by topic.
Linda Zagzebski on Knowledge
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Attributed to Linda Zagzebski:
“Knowledge is a state of cognitive contact with reality arising out of acts of intellectual virtue.”
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Attributed to Linda Zagzebski:
“Trust in the testimony of others is not a leap of faith, but a normal mode of rational life.”
Linda Zagzebski on Virtue
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Attributed to Linda Zagzebski:
“Admiration is the seed of moral knowledge; we know the good first by recognizing it in others.”
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Attributed to Linda Zagzebski:
“An exemplarist moral theory begins with persons, not with principles.”
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Attributed to Linda Zagzebski:
“The intellectual and moral virtues are not two sets of virtues; they are aspects of one good life.”