ABSTRACT
Nan Shepherd will be our guide to 'living life all the way through' in this chapter. She will also help us to explore the complex interrelationship between epistemology and the 'good knower'. In the case of Nan Shepherd this occurred in 1983 when she was aged 88. There were flashes of the latter in the reference to Shepherd's response to the photograph of her as a child 'demanding to get at life', and indeed in author comments on the current state of the university sector. Referring to the latter as asides serves to remind us of the advantages of looking sideways. Developing a clearer view of the latter is the key to deepening our understanding of virtue and the quiet art of scholarship in these brash and noisy times. The virtues embodied by Nan Shepherd are much broader and more protean than those of the intellectual variety celebrated by Baehr.
