"Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought." "Jennifer Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aris…
Introduction: developing an Aristotelian account of virtuous emotions -- Emotions and moral value -- Gratitude -- Pity -- Shame -- Jealousy -- Grief -- Awe -- Educating emotions -- Conclusions and afterthoughts "Many people are drawn towards virtue ethics because of the central…
Epistemische Tugenden sind Eigenschaften des forschenden Subjekts, die in wissenschaftlichen Kulturen als Bedingung für die Produktion, Vermittlung oder den Erwerb von Wissen angesehen werden. Sie lassen sich nicht auf ein abstraktes Sollen reduzieren, wie es oft von Ethikkommis…
"The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examine…
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.
Contemporary cognitive science clearly tells us that attention is modulated for speech and action. While these forms of goal-directed attention are very well researched in psychology, they have not been sufficiently studied by epistemologists. In this book, Abrol Fairweather and…
