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Varieties of moral personality : ethics and psychological realism /

Argues for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993, ©1991.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 PlansCharacters, 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 CommunityActual 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 Attractiveâ€?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 Questions11. 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