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Character as moral fiction /

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 pe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alfano, Mark, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction: tripartite naturalistic ethics -- Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics -- Rearticulating the situationist challenge -- Attempts to defend virtue ethics -- Factitious moral virtue -- Expanding the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology -- Expanding the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology -- Factitious intellectual virtue -- To see as we are seen: a n investigation of social distance heuristics. 
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