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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1993, ©1991.
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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 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 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