Critical Thinking 1-5 Notes

Question 1

What is a virtue?

Answer 1

Good character traits of a person; it also affects how we feel, perceive, and interact with the world.

Question 2

Who are two noted virtue philosophers?

Answer 2

Plato and Aristotle.

Question 3

What is the key points of a virtuous person?

Answer 3

-Not born with virtues.
-Was born with a capacity to develop virtue.
-Has to practice doing the virtuous thing over a long time.
-Benefits from watching other virtuous people.
-Likes doing what is good.
-Has appropriate feelings
-Has a reliable habit of doing what’s good even when difficult.
-Doesn’t do too much/too little of something relating to the virtue; “the golden mean”.

Question 4

What are the two categories of virtue?

Answer 4

Moral and intellectual virtue.

Question 5

What is moral virtue?

Answer 5

Character traits(ingrained habits) which helps people perform well without thinking about actions.

Question 6

Can moral virtues be formed through habit?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

What are examples of moral virtue?

Answer 7

Self-control, generosity, honesty.

Question 8

What is a way that moral virtues can be formed?

Answer 8

It can be formed through watching others.

Question 9

What is the golden mean?

Answer 9

The sweet spot between too much and too little.

Question 10

What is intellectual virtue?

Answer 10

The logical area of good character; associated with thinking and judgement making.

Question 11

What is a faculty virtue?

Answer 11

Involves power/faculties which requires truth and judgments.

Question 12

What are an example of faculty virtues?

Answer 12

Hearing, eye-sight.

Question 13

What is character virtues?

Answer 13

Virtues associated with ones character.

Question 14

What are examples of character virtues?

Answer 14

Courage, wisdom, justice, open-mindedness.

Question 15

Can a character virtue be developed?

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

Is it more of an intellectual virtue or moral virtue?

Answer 16

Intellectual virtue.

Question 17

What is a vice?

Answer 17

A vice is a bad character trait.

Question 18

What are the two types of motivator virtues?

Answer 18

Curiosity, inquisitiveness.

Question 19

What are the three beginner motivator virtues?

Answer 19

Curiosity and inquistiveness and truth-seeking.

Question 20

What is curiosity?

Answer 20

The intellectual virtue characterized by the desire to find out what exists(what/where/why).

Question 21

Who likes to understand things and has a natural desire to want to try new things?

Answer 21

A curious person.

Question 22

What is inquisitivess?

Answer 22

The willingness to ask questions and try to discover rather than being interested without putting in the action of doing so.

Question 23

What is an intellectual virtue thats characterized by the willingness to ask appropriate questions and put forth effort for the answers?

Answer 23

Inquisitiveness.

Question 24

What is the truth-seeking virtue?

Answer 24

The virtue that motivates you to be concerned about having what’s true rather than what’s false or detached from Reality.

Question 25

What is intellectual autonomy?

Answer 25

The virtue that allows one to think for oneself, with confidence in their abilities to apply information.

Question 26

What enables people to have stronger sense of their own responsibility for the things they believe and reasons they believe them?

Answer 26

Intellectual autonomy.

Question 27

“Self-directed”

Answer 27

Intellectual Autonomy

Question 28

What is both a character and moral virtue?

Answer 28

Intellectual Autonomy.

Question 29

What skills will an intellectually autonomous person have?

Answer 29

To evaluate the legitimacy of one’s authority before rejecting/accepting it.

Question 30

What is intellectual courage?

Answer 30

Allows a person to actualize his right to acquire information to research important topics that might be uncomfortable for others; also has supporting evidence in support of prevailing opinion.

Question 31

What is attentiveness?

Answer 31

The ability to pay attention and be focused for a long period of time.

Question 32

What is intellectual carefulness?

Answer 32

A disposition to notice/avoid mistakes before they happen; helps from drawing conclusions and making generalizations.

Question 33

Does an intellectually careful person consider other views before making his own?

Answer 33

Yes.

Question 34

What is intellectual thoroughness?

Answer 34

Virtue that enables a person to survey all relevant aspects of an issues and a sufficient number of sources.

Question 35

Are intellectually thorough people more surface-leveled or in-depth?

Answer 35

In-depth.

Question 36

What is open-mindedness?

Answer 36

The virtue that enables people to entertain many perspectives equally and to judge them to the merit of the view itself.

Question 37

What is dogmatism?

Answer 37

The lack of being open to new ideas; also have a tendency to asset a belief without supporting it.

Question 38

What is the excess of being open?

Answer 38

Also called ‘guilability’; blindly accepts new ideas as being true.

Question 39

What is intellectual caution?

Answer 39

The virtue that makes people consider the merit of a view before agreeing to it.

Question 40

What type of person will separate reality from how it’s presented?

Answer 40

An Intellectually cautious person.

Question 41

What is intellectual creativity?

Answer 41

The virtue that enables a person to envision possibilities; transforms knowledge/situations into something new.

Question 42

`What is intellectual humility?

Answer 42

The virtue that displays a realistic sense of self as seen in the willingness to own one’s limitations.

Question 43

Do intellectually humorous people research to acquire information?

Answer 43

Yes.

Question 44

What is intellectual servility?

Answer 44

The failure to recognize one’s intellectual abilities also conforms to others beliefs.