1. Apology of Socratic studies -- 2. Motivational intellectualism -- 3. The 'prudential paradox' -- 4. Wrongdoing and damage to the soul -- 5. Educating the appetites and passions -- 6. Virtue intellectualism -- 7. Socrates and his intellectual heirs: Plato, Aristotle, and the S…
"Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until fairly recently, the view that, for Socrates, emot…
Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of communi…
"Questions addressing people's moral lives, similarities and differences in the moral concepts of cultural groups, and how these concepts emerge in the course of development are of perennial interest. In a globalizing world, addressing what is universal and what is culturally di…
Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology brings together leading scholars in the field to provide fresh theoretical perspectives on research in philosophy and psychology.Reflecting a diverse and active field of study, contributors are drawn from across both subjects to pursue c…