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UNINA9910786034703321 |
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Autore |
Alfano Mark <1983-> |
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Titolo |
Character as moral fiction / / Mark Alfano [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Character |
Virtue |
Normativity (Ethics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910828132003321 |
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Titolo |
Creating the other : ethnic conflict and nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe / / edited by Nancy M. Wingfield |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2003] |
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©2003 |
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1-57181-384-5 |
1-57181-385-3 |
1-78238-852-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Collana |
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Austrian history, culture & society ; ; volume 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Nationalism - Europe, Central - History - 19th century |
Nationalism - Europe, Central - History - 20th century |
Racism - Europe, Central - History - 19th century |
Racism - Europe, Central - History - 20th century |
Europe, Central Ethnic relations |
Austria Ethnic relations |
Austria Politics and government 1789-1900 |
Europe, Central Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Part One. The Origins |
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and Changing Images of the Other to 1848; Chapter 1. Representing National Territory; Chapter 2. The Functions of Ethnic Stereotypes; Chapter 3. Czechs, Germans, Bohemians?; Part Two. Austria-Hungary in the Age of Nationalism; Chapter 4. The Image of the Other; Chapter 5. Gentry, Jews, and Peasants; Chapter 6. Nationalizing Rural Landscapes in Cisleithania; Chapter 7. Dynamics of Difference in the Kronprinzenwerk; Part Three. The Legacy; Chapter 8. Hungarian Motifs; Chapter 9. The South Slavs in the Austrian Imagination |
Chapter 10. Peoples of the Mountains, Peoples of the PlainsChapter 11. Marking the Difference; Chapter 12. The Psychology of Creating the Other; Select Bibliography; Index |
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The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of ethnic stereotypes during the "long" nineteenth century initially had other functions than simply the homogenization of the particular culture and the exclusion of "others" from the public sphere, the evaluation of peoples according to criteria that included "level of civilization" yielded "rankings" of ethnic groups within the Habsburg Monarchy. That provided the basis for later, more divisive ethnic characterizations of exclusive nationalism, as addressed in this volume that examines the roots and results of ethnic, nationalist, and racial conflict in the region from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives. |
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