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The Virtues of Embodiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2001

Charles Taliaferro
Affiliation:
St Olaf College

Abstract

Surprisingly, materialists and dualists often appeal to the same factors in their depiction of being an embodied, human person: sensations, agency, and causal underpinnings. I propose that this picture be expanded to include epistemic, structural, and affective components. I further propose that these elements, taken together, be construed as virtues. Being an embodied, human person consists in the exercise of six types of virtues: Sensory Virtues, the Virtue of Agency, Constitutional Virtues, Epistemic Virtues, Structural Virtues, and Affective Virtues. This project draws on recent contributions to virtue epistemology and to the philosophical analysis of self-respect.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2001

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