Linda Zagzebski Quotes on Virtue
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Linda Zagzebski on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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:
“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.”