Anyone who makes a virtue-a highly intellectual virtue- out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.
He brought several intellectual virtues to the task at hand.
(From this starting point however, he built up to similar theoretical conclusions concerning the importance of intellectual virtue and a contemplative life.)
Aristotle places prudence (phronēsis, often translated as practical wisdom) amongst these intellectual virtues.
The only requirement is that the intellectual virtue inclines the believer towards the truth.
Paul's conception of critical thinking also emphasizes the importance of intellectual virtues in human life.
Its objective is to develop moral, intellectual and spiritual virtues in people, regardless of race, gender, political ideology, religious beliefs or level of education.
In that case, what should be taught are academic or intellectual virtues like thoroughness, perseverance, intellectual honesty.
And the most perfect happiness, he reasoned, involved the divine "intellectual" virtues rather than the lower "practical" ones.
These virtues represented the most important qualities for a person to have, foremost of which were the philosophical or intellectual virtues.