ISBN:
0691134553
,
9780691134550
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 391 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sreenivasan, Gopal Emotion and virtue
DDC:
179/.9
Keywords:
Virtue
;
Emotions Moral and ethical aspects
;
Emotions ; Moral and ethical aspects
;
Virtue
;
Gefühl
;
Tugend
Abstract:
Preface --1. Credo --2. The Integral View --Preliminaries --3. Emotion --4. Disunity of Virtue --5. Character Traits --Arguments --6. Adverbial Requirements --7. Salience without a Black Box --8. Moral Deference and the Proto-authority of Affect --9. Recap with Courage --Consequences --10. Agents versus Acts --11. Against the Priority of Principle --12. Should Virtue Be Taught? --Acknowledgements --Notes --References --Index
Abstract:
A novel approach to the crucial role emotion plays in virtuous action. What must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an indispensable role in virtue. With exemplars of compassion, for instance, this role is played by a modified sympathy trait, which is central to enabling these exemplars to be reliably correct judges of the compassionate thing to do in various practical situations. Indeed, according to Gopal Sreenivasan, the virtue of compassion is, in a sense, a modified sympathy trait, just as courage is a modified fear trait.While he upholds the traditional definition of virtue as a species of character trait, Sreenivasan discards other traditional precepts. For example, he rejects the unity of the virtues and raises new questions about when virtue should be taught. Unlike orthodox virtue ethics, moreover, his account does not aspire to rival consequentialism and deontology. Instead Sreenivasan repudiates the ambitions of virtue imperialism.Emotion and Virtue makes significant contributions to moral psychology and the theory of virtue alike
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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