ABSTRACT
The main aim of this paper is to reflect on the scope of moral knowledge from the virtue ethics model, which is based on the idea of virtuous character and human flourishing, and this approach seems very promising to respond to the skeptical argument that says that moral disagreement is an irrefutable proof of the impossibility of knowledge in the field of ethics. To this end, I begin by problematizing moral knowledge, with a specific consideration of ethical reasoning. Subsequently, I investigate the role of the epistemic virtues of practical wisdom, humility, and integrity for the acquisition of moral knowledge. Finally, I postulate that a virtue ethics that rely on certain epistemic virtues can explain adequately the moral knowledge and respond more effectively to skepticism.
Keywords
Moral knowledge; epistemic virtues; practical wisdom; humility; integrity