Developing Epistemic Vices

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Medina thinks that the privilege have a greater chance of developing epistemic vices. Medina stated that vices are “a set of corrupted attitudes and dispositions that gets in the way of knowledge.” Some of the vices include epistemic arrogance, lack of resistance, laziness, close minded and color blindness. Epistemic arrogance affects those who think that they know everything. The problem with this is that those who think they know everything will have a hard time learning new things. They miss out on opportunity learn and improve their limitation. Arrogance creates a form of lack of resistance, this mean the privilege discover fact without judging or scutanizing them. Privileges are at a greater risk to be affected by Laziness vices. Laziness

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