The philosophy and psychology of character and happiness
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The philosophy and psychology of character and happiness
(Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory, 28)
Routledge, 2014
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism - that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology - this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, and happiness, and related issues such as personality, emotion and cognition, attitudes and automaticity. Researchers at the top of their fields offer exciting work that expands the horizons of empirically informed research on topics central to virtue ethics.
Table of Contents
Part I: Persons, Situations, and Virtue
1. The Real Challenge to Virtue Ethics from Psychology
Christian Miller
2. Reasoning about Wrong Reasons, No Reasons, and Reasons of Virtue
Neera K. Badhwar
3. Following Kurt Lewin Beyond the Situation -- and the Person
C. Daniel Batson
Part II: The Moral Psychology of Virtue
4. Automaticity in Virtuous Action
Clea F. Rees and Jonathan Webber
5. Disgust, Moral Knowledge, and Virtue
Erik J. Wielenberg
6. Empathic Concern and the Pursuit of Virtue
Franco V. Trivigno
7. The Having and Doing of Moral Personality
Daniel Lapsley and Darcia Narvaez
Part III: Asian Philosophy and Psychology on Virtue and Happiness
8. Seeing Confucian 'Active Moral Perception' in Light of Contemporary Psychology
Stephen C. Angle
9. Is Self-Regulation a Burden or a Virtue? A Comparative Perspective
Hagop Sarkissian
10. The Geography of Thought Revisited: Reflections on Situationism and the Psychology of Asians
Nancy E. Snow
11. The Psychology of Virtue and Happiness in Western and Asian Thought
Samuel M. Y. Ho, Wenjie Duan, and Sandy C. M. Tang
Part IV: Happiness
12. Adventures in Assisted Living: Well-Being and Situationist Psychology
Daniel M. Haybron
13. Aristotelian Well-Being for the Modern World: Taking the Capabilities Approach to the Next Level of Specificity
Howard J. Curzer
14. A Virtuous Cycle: The Relationship Between Happiness and Virtue
Pelin Kesebir and Ed Diener
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