Interpretation of the Concept of "Virtue" in Scientific and Religious Epistemology

M. Heidegger wrote about the need to renew the question of the essence of being, in connection with the loss by modern man of understanding the meaning of this problem, and, moreover, referring to Plato, who was at least confused by the fact that this loss affected both himself and the society of his time, the German philosopher pointed out the absence of even such critical self-awareness among the people of his time, because being for them, without any reason, is self-understandable and self-evident. A similar situation can be observed with the concept of "virtue" in the scientific worldview, which stands on the position of objective knowledge, for which the best criterion of reliability and, in fact, objectivity is the absence of everything that is connected with human experiences, which means the elimination of man from the process of cognition itself, the exclusion of the human factor in matters of epistemology. However, Christianity says that the fullness of knowledge is possible only through Christ the Savior, Who is the fullness of everything, and that it is necessary to understand sin as the true cause of the meaninglessness of all that exists, for the meaning of existence is revealed only in its formation through virtuous and church life in well-being, through which Divine Wisdom and eternity shine. This article examines the points of contact between scientific and religious worldviews within the framework of the theories of knowledge that they developed. An important turn of classical epistemology towards its non-classical aspects is traced, which are especially evident in the epistemology of virtues (virtue epistemology), or aretic epistemology, in which the turn simply from dianoetic (intellectual) virtues to the axiological basis of knowledge, laid down in the concepts of "paideia" and "ethics" by Plato, allows us to establish a connection with Christian ethics and to designate the priority in this matter of religious knowledge, and accordingly religious epistemology.