Abstract:
With an emphasis on Julia Driver’s ideas about virtue, this paper intends to illustrate an approach on virtues that despite of accepting general frameworks, it attempts to weaken the genuine role of knowledge in Aristotelian ethics and defines and justifies some important virtues based on ignorance and unawareness. The virtues in his view include modesty, trust, forgiveness, spontaneous courage, and scoreless kindness. The necessity to accept the virtues of ignorance is acceptance of an infra-ethical approach which does not consider good intentions necessary for achieving virtues. However, to limit the domain of the study without criticizing this presupposition, only the analysis of virtues of ignorance will be discussed.
Machine summary:
Analysis of "Virtues Based on Ignorance" from the Perspective of Julia Driver Masoud Sadeghi 1 Abstract Julia Driver, with a novel approach to virtue, attempts to, despite accepting general frameworks, diminish the original role of knowledge in Aristotelian ethics and at least define and justify some prominent virtues as being based on ignorance and unawareness.
Keywords Julia Driver, moral philosophy, virtues based on ignorance, humility, trust, forgiveness, improvisational courage.
In this regard, Ms. Driver is one of the most important figures who has attempted to explain the positive and constructive role of ignorance from her own perspective in the realm of ethics, especially in the field of moral virtues, and whether willing or unwilling, challenges the traditional and classical perception of the role of PhD student in Moral Philosophy, University of Qom. sadeghi184@yahoo.
Inferential ignorance in trust In Driver's view, trust is not a type of blind charity; because an individual can both consider another to be trustworthy and believe so contrary to the evidence.
Therefore, any method that must be employed to train a brave human being will also, in some way, nurture improvisational courage in them; however, this response is not very convincing; because if we turn to other virtues based on ignorance, such as humility or uncalculated benevolence, we can raise the question of how they can be taught to children, students, and generally to moral agents.
She considers the ignorance included in the definition of the virtue of trust to be passive ignorance / mere lack of knowledge; (Ibid: 31) but the ideal approach to humility from Driver's perspective is based on active ignorance.
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