Perseverance
This chapter explores intellectual perseverance, the virtue needed to overcome obstacles to our getting, keeping, and sharing knowledge. After locating perseverance as a virtue between the deficiency of irresolution and the vice of intransigence, the chapter considers the structure of the virtue in greater detail. It argues that perseverance involves a disposition to expend serious effort in order to overcome obstacles to the completion of our intellectual projects—particularly obstacles that make it difficult for us to achieve our intellectual ends. The chapter concludes by relating the notion of intellectual perseverance to recent work on grit, and to the concept of a growth mindset.
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1991 ◽
Vol 49
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pp. 38-39
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1921 ◽
Vol 3
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pp. 561-562
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