Epistemic Malevolence

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVirtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages189-213
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9781444335620
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 20 2011

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Considerable structural symmetry - between moral and intellectual character virtues
  • epistemic counterpart of malevolence - idea of epistemic malevolence, whether there is something as epistemic malevolence
  • Epistemic malevolence
  • Impersonal malevolence, object impersonal - case of personal malevolence
  • impersonal versus personal malevolence - and objects of malevolence
  • Impersonally malevolent agent, instead of being opposed to the good as a whole - opposed to some limited part or dimension of the good
  • Malevolence, essentially or paradigmatically - matter of opposition to the good as such
  • Opposition to the good - What kind of opposition is essential to malevolence
  • Person, moral or intellectual coward, morally or intellectually dishonest - morally or intellectually unfair
  • Phenomenon of hardened malevolence - a challenge to weak formulation of the subjective conception

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