Identity, Character, and Morality

Identity, Character, and Morality
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.

Personality, Identity, and Character

Personality, Identity, and Character
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.

Personal and Moral Identity

Personal and Moral Identity
Author: A.W. Musschenga
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401599548

The subject of personal and moral identity is at the centre of interest, not only of academic research within disciplines such as philosophy and psychology, but also of everyday thinking. This is why the Neth erlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam took the initiative to bring together scholars from various disciplines, interested in the subject. The expert-seminar on 'Personal and Moral Identity' took place from 12-14 January 1999. Financial contributions from the Vrije Universiteit, the Dutch Scientific Organisation (NWO) and the Royal Dutch Academy for the Sciences (KNA W) made the event possible. The chapters in this book either go back to papers presented at the seminar or were written afterwards by participants, inspired by the discussions that took place during the seminar. We are very grateful to Dr. Hendrik Hutter for his assistance in editing the texts and making the manuscript camera-ready. December 2001, The Editors. 1 Introduction Albert W. Musschenga Although scholars studying the identity of persons usually address diverging issues and have different research agendas, there is a grow ing awareness that one may benefit from insights and results present in other disciplines dealing with that subject. This explains the enthu siastic responses to the invitation of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics of the Vrije Universiteit to participate in a seminar on 'Personal and Moral Identity'.

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development
Author: Lene Arnett Jensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 948
Release: 2020-01-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 019067606X

The nature of people's moral lives, the similarities and differences in the moral concepts of individuals and groups, and how these concepts emerge in the course of human development are topics of perennial interest. In recent years, the field of moral development has turned from a focus on a limited set of theories to a refreshingly vast array of research questions and methods. This handbook offers a comprehensive, international, and up-to-date review of this research on moral development. Drawing together the work of over 90 authors, hailing from diverse disciplines such as anthropology, education, human development, psychology and sociology, the handbook reflects the dynamic nature of the field. Across more than 40 chapters, this handbook opens the door to a broad view of moral motives and behaviors, ontogeny and developmental pathways, and contexts that children, adolescents, and adults experience with respect to morality. It offers a comprehensive and timely tour of the field of moral development.

The Ethics of Identity

The Ethics of Identity
Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 069125477X

A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what extent do they constrain our freedom, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? Is diversity of value in itself? Has the rhetoric of human rights been overstretched? Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions, developing an account of ethics that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances and that takes aim at clichés and received ideas about identity. This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.

The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence

The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence
Author: Martijn van Zomeren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190247576

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned chapters from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspective upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Book jacket.

Self-Knowledge and Moral Identity

Self-Knowledge and Moral Identity
Author: Ranjan Kumar Panda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9788195055937

Many contemporary philosophers, such as Akeel Bilgrami, Crispin Wright, Christine Korsgaard, and Mrinal Miri, have explicitly discussed the relevance of self-knowledge in relation to the discourse of normativity. This book addresses the notion of self-knowledge as relevant in the formation of moral identity.

Virtue as Identity

Virtue as Identity
Author: Aleksandar Fatic
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783483059

Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values. A large part of this process is externally imposed through culture. Another, perhaps more important part of the process is the result of individual and collective sensibilities. The book emphasizes the role of emotions and emotional sensibility in our choice of values. The book re-affirms traditional morality as the foundation of our individual and collective identities. The author argues that emotions as well as rational decisions guide the value choices we make and the ideals of character that we presuppose on a political level as much as they do in our private lives. Thus the societies we live in are a reflection of our identities, or the identities of the majority. This opens up radical questions about the identities of the dissenting minorities, the proper concept of a moral or value-community, and the real reach and value of tolerance in modern democracy.

Moral Development, Self, and Identity

Moral Development, Self, and Identity
Author: Daniel K. Lapsley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2004-04-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135632332

Long dormant,the field of moral development is experiencing a comeback. This book will appeal to scholars, developmental theorists and grad. students interested in issues of moral development,moral education,moral behavior & cognitive developmental theor

Character Psychology and Character Education

Character Psychology and Character Education
Author: Daniel K. Lapsley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN:

A collection of essays about character and character education by some of the top scholars in the fields of ethical theory, moral development research, and education