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From Personality to Virtue - Essays on the Philosophy of Character (Hardcover)
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From Personality to Virtue - Essays on the Philosophy of Character (Hardcover)
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Character plays a central role in our everyday understanding and
evaluation of ourselves and one another. It informs the
expectations that ground our plans and projects, our moral
responses to other people's behaviour and to opportunities we
ourselves face, and our political decisions concerning formal
education, criminal punishment, and other aspects of social
organisation. The very idea that people have persisting character
traits that explain their behaviour is woven throughout the fabric
of our culture. These philosophical essays clarify this idea of
character, analyse its relation with the findings of experimental
psychology, and draw out the implications of this for education and
for criminal punishment. They bring together a range of issues in
contemporary philosophy, including the nature of agency, the
modelling of behavioural cognition, ethical implications of
personal necessity, moral responsibility for implicit bias, the
prospects for character education, and the nature of rightful
criminal punishment. The essays emphasise that character is
inherently dynamic, challenging the tendency among personality
psychologists and virtue ethicists alike to focus on static
snapshots of traits, and they emphasise the close integration of
character with the individual's social context, seeking to
accommodate the situationist experimental findings within a picture
of behaviour as manifesting stable character traits. The volume is
intended to demonstrate the deep conceptual affinity of moral
philosophy and social psychology and the consequent potential for
each to benefit from the other.
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