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In this article, I explore the views of Ernest Sosa, a living analytic philosopher who developed a virtue epistemology out of the contemporary virtue ethics. Virtue theory in ethics is personbased rather than act-based; and similarly virtue theory in epistemology is person-based rather than belief/proposition-based. In this way, Sosa who has defended person-based theory of justification with the aid of intellectual virtue, developed a theory that can be an alternative to foundationalism, coherentism and post-Gettier problems. The theory is a refined version of reliabilism and its roots can be traced back to Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes and Reid in classical epistemology and it also basically depends on epistemology of Alvin Goldman in contemporary epistemology. One of the most important features of this epistemology is refrain from dichotomies such as foundationalism/coherentism and internalism/externalism and try to surpass polarization by reconciling them. Finally, virtue epistemology of Sosa defends epistemology as a normative discipline against Quineist radical naturalized epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to many commentators, on the one hand, Aristotle elaborates the concept of happiness as an action in coherence with all virtues in the first book of The Nicomachean Ethics, on the other hand, in the last book of The Nicomachean Ethics, he consubstantiates happiness with only one virtue, which is philosophical wisdom.In this article, I examine parts 7 and 8 of Book 10 of The Nicomachean Ethics,which are probably the most interesting and unexpected passages in the the book. These parts arethe most problematic areas whichbecame a subject matter of many books for the clarifications of the issues. Aristotle obviously claims that there is a relationship between the best intellectual virtue and God, giving him perfect happiness, which indicates that there is an intersection point among metaphysics, epistemology, ethic and philosophy of religion.In this context, the main aims of this article are, first, to describe the contemplative life which is causedby the highest intellectual virtue and to claim that this life is in harmony with the inclusivist theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]