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The Moral Psychology of Envy (Hardcover)
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The Moral Psychology of Envy (Hardcover)
Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions
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Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of
others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies-or so the
common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural
condemnation. Envy's bad reputation is not completely unwarranted;
envy can indeed motivate malicious and counterproductive behavior
and may strain or even tear apart relations between people.
However, that is not always the case. Investigating the complex
nature of this emotion reveals that it plays important functions in
social hierarchies and it can motivate one to self-improve and even
to achieve moral virtue. Philosophers and psychologists in this
volume explore envy's characteristics in different cultures,
spanning from small hunter-gatherer communities to large
industrialized countries, and contexts as diverse as academia,
marketing, artificial intelligence, and Buddhism. They explore
envy's role in both the personal and the political sphere, showing
the many ways in which envy can either contribute or detract to our
flourishing as individuals and as citizens of modern democracies.
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