Character And Moral Psychology
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Author | : Christian B. Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199674361 |
Christian Miller explores ethical implications of his new theory of character, which holds that our characters are made up of mixed traits with some morally positive and some morally negative aspects. He examines whether judgements of character are systematically erroneous, and assesses the challenge to virtue ethics from scepticism about virtue.
Author | : Owen Flanagan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1993-08-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262560740 |
Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Author | : Darcia Narváez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2009-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521895073 |
This edited volume features cutting-edge work in moral psychology by pre-eminent scholars in moral self-identity, moral character, and moral personality.
Author | : John M. Doris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2002-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521631167 |
This is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethical theory challenging foundational conceptions of character.
Author | : Christian B. Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190264225 |
We like to think of ourselves and our friends and families as pretty good people. The more we put our characters to the test, however, the more we see that we are decidedly a mixed bag. Fortunately there are some promising strategies - both secular and religious - for developing better characters.
Author | : Christian B. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198744207 |
Christian Miller presents a new account of moral character. Most of our friends, colleagues, and even family members are not virtuous people. They do not have virtues such as compassion, honesty, or courage. But at the same time, they are not vicious people either. They do not have vices such as cruelty, dishonesty, or cowardice. Instead most people today have characters which do not qualify as either virtuous or vicious. They have many positive moral features, but also many negative ones too. Our characters are decidedly mixed, and are much more complex than we might have thought. On the one hand, many of us would kill an innocent person in a matter of minutes under pressure from an authority figure as part of a psychology study. Or we would pretend to not see someone collapse from an apparent heart attack across the street. Or we would make a wide circle around someone's dropped papers rather than stop to help pick them up. Yet it is also true that many of us would help another person when we are by ourselves and hear sounds of a non-ambiguous emergency in the next room. Or we would come to the aid of a friend when feeling empathy for her need, and do so for altruistic rather than egoistic reasons. In Moral Character: An Empirical Theory Miller outlines a new picture of our moral character which involves what are called Mixed Character Traits. This picture can help make sense of how most of us are less than virtuous people but also morally better than the vicious.
Author | : Mark Alfano |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139620096 |
Everyone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop. Although psychology suggests that most people do not have robust character traits such as courage, honesty and open-mindedness, Alfano argues that we have reason to attribute these virtues to people because such attributions function as self-fulfilling prophecies - children become more studious if they are told that they are hard-working and adults become more generous if they are told that they are generous. He argues that we should think of virtue and character as social constructs: there is no such thing as virtue without social reinforcement. His original and provocative book will interest a wide range of readers in contemporary ethics, epistemology, moral psychology and empirically informed philosophy.
Author | : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262195615 |
Since the 1990s, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. These three volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging, collaboratory field.
Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190655844 |
In Exemplarist Moral Theory of Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, whom we identify through the emotion of admiration. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, she shows how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable persons can be incorporated into the theory to serve both theoretical and practical purposes.
Author | : Christian B. Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190204605 |
This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character in philosophy, theology, and psychology. From a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments to an understanding of the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies, these 31 chapters significantly advance our understanding of character.