There are many exciting points of contact between developmental
psychology in the attachment paradigm and the kinds of questions
first raised by Aristotle's ethics, and which continue to preoccupy
moral philosophers today. The book brings experts from both fields
together to explore them for the first time, to demonstrate why
philosophers working in moral psychology, or in 'virtue ethics' -
better, the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human
nature, human excellence, and the best life for human beings -
should take attachment theory more seriously than they have done to
date. Attachment theory is a theory of psychological development.
And the characteristics attachment theory is a developmental theory
of - the various subvarieties of attachment - are evaluatively
inflected: to be securely attached to a parent is to have a kind of
attachment that makes for a good intimate relationship. But
obviously the classification of human character in terms of the
virtues is evaluatively inflected too. So it would be strange if
there were no story to be told about how these two sets of
evaluatively inflected descriptions relate to one another.
Attachment and Character explores the relationship between
attachment and prosocial behaviour; probes the concept of the
prosocial itself, and the relationship between prosocial behaviour,
virtue and the quality of the social environment; the question
whether there even are such things as stable character traits; and
whether attachment theory, in locating the origins of virtue in
secure attachment, and attachment dispositions in human
evolutionary history, gives support to ethical naturalism, in any
of the many meanings of that expression.
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