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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462792003321

Autore

Alfano Mark <1983->

Titolo

Character as moral fiction / / Mark Alfano [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23665-7

1-139-61079-1

1-139-60906-8

1-139-61265-4

1-139-62195-5

1-283-98668-X

1-139-62567-5

1-139-20853-5

1-139-61637-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

179/.9

Soggetti

Character

Virtue

Normativity (Ethics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: tripartite naturalistic ethics -- Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics -- Rearticulating the situationist challenge -- Attempts to defend virtue ethics -- Factitious moral virtue -- Expanding the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology -- Expanding the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology -- Factitious intellectual virtue -- To see as we are seen: a n investigation of social distance heuristics.

Sommario/riassunto

Everyone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop. Although psychology suggests that most people do not have robust character traits such as courage, honesty and open-mindedness, Alfano argues



that we have reason to attribute these virtues to people because such attributions function as self-fulfilling prophecies - children become more studious if they are told that they are hard-working and adults become more generous if they are told that they are generous. He argues that we should think of virtue and character as social constructs: there is no such thing as virtue without social reinforcement. His original and provocative book will interest a wide range of readers in contemporary ethics, epistemology, moral psychology and empirically informed philosophy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455369103321

Autore

Dunkerley David

Titolo

Changing Europe : identities, nations and citizens / / David Dunkerley. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-49795-4

0-415-26777-3

1-280-40290-3

0-203-30353-9

Descrizione fisica

x, 187 p

Disciplina

323.6094

Soggetti

Citizenship - European Union countries

Nationalism - European Union countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter Union citizenship in the Maastricht Treaty -- chapter Article F (2) TEU -- chapter Article 8(c) EC -- chapter The Charter of Fundamental Rights -- chapter Post-war Europe -- chapter Categorising nationalism -- chapter European regions and EU policy -- chapter Background -- chapter Further reading -- chapter Global human rights -- chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter The origins of a state system and the beginnings of globalisation -- chapter



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