Varieties of Moral Personality
Varieties of Moral Personality

Author: Owen Flanagan

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0674036956

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Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such “moral saints” as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Schindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.

The Geography of Morals
The Geography of Morals

Author: Owen J. Flanagan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0190212152

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Variations -- On being imprisoned by one's upbringing -- Moral psychologies and moral ecologies -- Bibliographical essay -- First nature -- Classical Chinese sprouts -- Modern moral psychology -- Beyond moral modularity -- Destructive emotions -- Bibliographic essay -- Collisions -- When values collide -- Moral geographies of anger -- Weird anger -- For love's and justice's sake -- Bibliographical essay -- Anthropologies -- Self-variations: philosophical archaeologies -- The content of character.

Lack of Character
Lack of Character

Author: John M. Doris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-15

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521631167

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This is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethical theory challenging foundational conceptions of character.

Personality, Identity, and Character
Personality, Identity, and Character

Author: Darcia Narváez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0521895073

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This edited volume features cutting-edge work in moral psychology by pre-eminent scholars in moral self-identity, moral character, and moral personality.

Character and Moral Psychology
Character and Moral Psychology

Author: Christian B. Miller

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0199674361

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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.

Exemplarist Moral Theory
Exemplarist Moral Theory

Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190655844

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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.

Atlas of Moral Psychology
Atlas of Moral Psychology

Author: Kurt Gray

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1462532586

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This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and behavior. It is organized around the key questions that must be addressed for a complete understanding of the moral mind.

Moral Psychology
Moral Psychology

Author: Daniel K Lapsley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0429978456

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This book, a review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics, emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning, and character development and charts a line of research for the "post-Kohlbergian era" in moral psychology.

Evil and Moral Psychology
Evil and Moral Psychology

Author: Peter Brian Barry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0415532906

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This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology-the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides both a philosophical account of what evil people are like and considers the implications of that account for social, legal, and criminal institutions. He also engages in traditional philosophical reasoning strongly informed by psychological research, especially abnormal and social psychology. In response to the popularity of phrases like "the axis of evil" and the ease with which politicians and others describe their opponents as "evil," Barry sets out to make clear just what it is to be an evil person.

Moral Exemplars in the Analects
Moral Exemplars in the Analects

Author: Amy Olberding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1136641718

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In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus prior to any conceptual criteria for virtue. Put simply, Olberding proposes an "origins myth" in which Confucius, already and prior to his philosophizing knows whom he judges to be virtuous. The work we see him and the Analects' authors pursuing is their effort to explain in an organized, generalized, and abstract way why pre-theoretically identified exemplars are virtuous. Moral reasoning here begins with people and with inchoate experiences of admiration for them. The conceptual work of the text reflects the attempt to analyze such people and parse such experiences in order to distill abstract qualities that account for virtue and can guide emulation.