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Varieties of Moral Personality : Ethics and Psychological Realism.
Title:
Varieties of Moral Personality : Ethics and Psychological Realism.
Author:
Flanagan, Owen.
ISBN:
9780674036956
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (410 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Contents -- PART I Ethics and Psychological Realism -- Prologue: Saints -- 1. Ethics and Psychology -- The Topic -- Ethics, Psychology, and the Human Sciences -- The Autonomy Thesis -- 2. The Principle of Minimal Psychological Realism -- Minimal Psychological Realism -- Psychological Distance -- Natural and Social Psychological Traits -- Environmental Sensitivity -- Natural Teleology and the Naturalistic Fallacy -- 3. Psychological Realism and the Personal Point of View -- The Argument from the Personal Point of View -- Minimal Persons -- Persons and Plans -- Characters, Commitments, and Projects -- Separateness and Impersonality -- 4. Abstraction, Alienation, and Integrity -- Strong Realism and Socially Fortified Persons -- Abstraction and Kinds of Impartiality -- Integrity, Alienation, and Virtues of Form -- PART II Liberal and Communitarian Philosophical Psychology -- 5. Community and the Liberal Self -- The Social Construction of Persons -- The Classical Picture and the Primacy of Justice -- Community, Friendship, and Flourishing -- Appreciation, Emulation, and Self-Respect -- Social Union -- 6. Identity and Community -- Actual and Self-Represented Identity -- Identity, Self-Esteem, and Effective Agency -- Self-Understanding, Encumbered Identity, and Psychological Realism -- Self-Understanding and Like-Mindedness -- Narrativity and Homogeneity -- PART III Moral Psychology -- 7. Moral Cognition: Development and Deep Structure -- Psychological Realism and Deep Structure -- The Moral Judgment of the Child -- Moral Consciousness, Speech Acting, and Opacity -- Rules and Autonomy: The Marble Study -- Games and Gender -- Consequences and Intentions -- The "Consciousness of Something Attractive" -- 8. Modern Moral Philosophy and Moral Stages -- Stage Theory -- Stage Holism and Globality.

Moral Stage, Character Assessment, and Unified Justification -- Development and Improvement -- The Adequacy of the Highest Stage -- 9. Virtue, Gender, and Identity -- ldentity and Morality -- Psychological Realism and Gender -- Two Different Global Voices? -- Gestalt Shifts -- 10. Gender Differences: The Current Status of the Debate -- The No-Difference Claim -- The Relation of Justice and Care -- Further Empirical Questions -- 11. Gender, Normative Adequacy, Content, and Cognitivism -- Six Theses -- The Separate-but-Equal Doctrine -- The Integration Doctrine -- The Hammer- Wrench Doctrine -- Impartialism -- Noncognitivist Care -- Context-Sensitive Care -- PART IV Situations, Dispositions, and Well-Being -- 12. Invisible Shepherds, Sensible Knaves, and the Modularity of the Moral -- Two Thought Experiments about Character -- Persons in Situations -- Moral Gaps and the Unity of Character -- Moral Modularity -- 13. Characters and Their Traits -- Traits and Traitology -- lndividual Trait Globality and Situation Sensitivity -- The Trait-Inference Network and Evaluative Consistency -- Evaluative Consistency, the Authoritarian Personality, and Authoritarian Behavior -- Moral Traits -- 14. Situations, Sympathy, and Attribution Theory -- Character and Coercion -- Miligram's "One Great Unchanging Result" -- Coercion and Rebellion in Groups -- Situations and Samaritans -- Attribution Theory and Moral Personality -- 15. Virtue, Mental Health, and Happiness -- Illusion and Well-Being -- The Traditional View Meets the Facts -- The Traditional View versus the Classical View -- Virtue, Again -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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