ABSTRACT
Emotions are important for virtue, both moral and intellectual. Now the fact that emotions are important for virtue is widely accepted; the question of why this is the case is much less discussed. This chapter will aim to explain the significance of emotion for intellectual virtue along two dimensions. The first claim I want to defend is that epistemic emotions can motivate intellectual inquiry, and thereby constitute ways of ‘being for’ intellectual goods. As a result, such emotions can constitute the motivational components of intellectual virtue. The second claim I want to make is that other emotions, rather than motivating intellectual inquiry and questioning, instead play a vital role in the regulation and control of intellectual activities. As a result, such emotions enable the virtuous person to be reliably successful in attaining intellectual goods.
