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Author: Julia Annas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199228787
Size: 73.42 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Book Description: Julia Annas offers a new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. She argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of the kind we find in someone exercising an everyday practical skill, such as farming, building, or playing the piano. This helps us to see virtue as part of an agent's happiness or flourishing.

Author: Matt Stichter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108583547
Size: 61.47 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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Book Description: The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation and skill acquisition, which he then uses as grounds to discuss virtue development as a process of skill acquisition. This account of virtue as skill has important implications for debates about virtue in both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Furthermore, it engages seriously with criticisms of virtue theory that arise in moral psychology, as psychological experiments reveal that there are many obstacles to acting and thinking well, even for those with the best of intentions. Stichter draws on self-regulation strategies and examples of deliberate practice in skill acquisition to show how we can overcome some of these obstacles, and become more skillful in our moral and epistemic virtues.

Author: Julia Annas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190271469
Size: 49.15 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Book Description: Ethicists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the development of virtue in recent years, approaching the topic from the perspectives of virtue ethics and developmental psychology respectively. Such interest in virtue development has spread beyond academia, as teachers and parents have increasingly striven to cultivate virtue as part of education and child-rearing. Looking at these parallel trends in the study and practice of virtue development, the essays in this volume explore such questions as: How can philosophical work on virtue development inform psychological work on it, and vice versa? How should we understand virtue as a dimension of human personality? What is the developmental foundation of virtue? What are the evolutionary aspects of virtue and its development? How is virtue fostered? How is virtue exemplified in behavior and action? How is our conception of virtue influenced by context and by developmental and social experiences? What are the tensions, impediments and prospects for an integrative field of virtue study? Rather than centering on each discipline, the essays in this volume are organized around themes and engage each other in a broader dialogue. The volume begins with an introductory essay from the editors that a wide-angle view of the fuller range of philosophical and empirical issues that have surrounded the notion of virtue in recent years.

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Category : China
Languages : en
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Author: Philip Lindsley
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Author: Philip Lindsley
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Size: 73.41 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
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Size: 10.10 MB
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
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Size: 30.93 MB
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Category : Brownson, Henry Francis
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
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Size: 37.74 MB
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
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Author: American Woman's Educational Association
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Category : Women
Languages : en
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Book Description: The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910