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  • Doing Good with Words: The Virtue of Benevolent Persuasiveness

  • Veronica Campos
  • Journal:
    Episteme , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 June 2023, pp. 1-21
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  • Contemporary virtue epistemology has been progressing remarkably in the activity of virtue profiling, yet a lot remains to be discussed about the many ways and extents to which some virtues and vices of the intellect impact our lives. This paper is an attempt at sketching a preliminary profile to an epistemic virtue that hasn't received a lot of attention to this date: the virtue of being a good convincer, aka persuasiveness. I submit that there is a particular way of using speech in which persuasiveness is allied with benevolence as a means of conveying a distinctive type of epistemic good, the good of understanding.