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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812878603321

Autore

Snow Nancy E

Titolo

Virtue as Social Intelligence : An Empirically Grounded Theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2010

ISBN

1-135-83862-3

1-282-31553-6

9786612315534

0-203-88057-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

152.4

179.9

Soggetti

Ethics

Social intelligence

Virtue

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 IN SEARCH OF GLOBAL TRAITS; 2 HABITUAL VIRTUOUS ACTIONS AND AUTOMATICITY; 3 SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND WHY IT MATTERS; 4 VIRTUE AS SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE; 5 PHILOSOPHICAL SITUATIONISM REVISITED; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory takes on the claims of philosophical situationism, the ethical theory that is skeptical about the possibility of human virtue. Influenced by social psychological studies, philosophical situationists argue that human personality is too fluid and fragmented to support a stable set of virtues. They claim that virtue cannot be grounded in empirical psychology. This book argues otherwise. Drawing on the work of psychologists Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda, Nancy E. Snow argues that the social psychological expe