Cases Quote by Ernest Sosa Download Open image “Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.” — Ernest Sosa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cases Epistemology Ethics Philosophy Special Virtue Virtue Ethics
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.” — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Aristotle wrote in Nicomachean Ethics, “hold that it is by nature that people become good, others that it is by habit, and others that… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
We need some standard that will determine how likely a belief is to be true given just that it is stored in one of… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
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