Identity, character, and morality : essays in moral psychology /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1990] ©1990
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 487 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Psychology and philosophy. Ethics. Identification (Psychology) Group identity. Character. Ethics Morals Identification, Psychological Social Identification Identity Crisis Character Identification (Psychology) Group identity. Character. Ethics. Psychology and philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11796927

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Varying Form of Title:	Moral psychology
Other authors / contributors:	Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949- editor. Rorty, Amélie, editor.
ISBN:	0262272768 9780262272766 9780262560740 0262061155 9780262061155 0262560747
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"[Some essays] were first presented at the conference Character and Morality held at Radcliffe College in April 1988"--Acknowledgements. "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-483).
Summary:	Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics, and they examine the ways in which, morality is affected by the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation.
Other form:	Print version: Identity, character, and morality. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1990. 0262560747

Table of Contents:

Aspects of identity and agency / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty and David Wong
Identity and strong and weak evaluation / Owen Flanagan
The moral life of a pragmatist / Ruth Anna Putnam
Natural affection and responsibility for character : a critique of Kantian views of the virtues / Gregory Trianosky
On the old saw that character is destiny / Michele Moody-Adams
Hume and moral emotions / Marcia Lind
The place of emotions in Kantian morality / Nancy Sherman
Vocation, friendship, and community : limitations of the personal-impersonal framework / Lawrence A. Blum
Gender and moral luck / Claudia Card
Friendship and duty : some difficult relations / Michael Stocker.
Trust, affirmation, and moral character : a critique of Kantian morality / Laurence Thomas
Why honesty is a hard virtue / Annette C. Baier
Higher-order discrimination / Adrian M.S. Piper
Obligation and performance : a Kantian account of moral conflict / Barbara Herman
Rational egoism, self, and others / David O. Brink
Is akratic action always irrational? / Alison McIntyre
Rationality, responsibility, and pathological indifference / Stephen L. White
Some advantages of virtue ethics / Michael Slote
On the primacy of character / Gary Watson.

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