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