03971nam 2200697Ia 450 991045612920332120200520144314.00-19-159839-91-281-98098-697866119809860-19-151975-8(CKB)111087313299474(EBL)3052918(OCoLC)654299420(SSID)ssj0000086791(PQKBManifestationID)11998706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086791(PQKBWorkID)10031153(PQKB)11312570(SSID)ssj0000484290(PQKBManifestationID)11328447(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484290(PQKBWorkID)10574312(PQKB)11606809(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075451(MiAaPQ)EBC3052918(Au-PeEL)EBL3052918(CaPaEBR)ebr10274612(CaONFJC)MIL198098(EXLCZ)9911108731329947419880922d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fabric of character[electronic resource] Aristotle's theory of virtue /Nancy ShermanOxford [England] Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press19891 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-824451-7 0-19-823917-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations and Bibliographical Notes""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""1. Character""; ""2. The Inseparability of Character and Practical Reason""; ""3. A Practical Theory""; ""2. DISCERNING THE PARTICULARS""; ""1. Equity within the Law""; ""2. An Alternative Legislative Model""; ""3. Perceiving Ethical Salience""; ""4. Seeing through Emotions""; ""5. Strategies for Expanding Horizons""; ""3. THE CHOICES OF A CHARACTER""; ""1. Present and Future Intention""; ""2. The Practical Syllogism""; ""3. Simple Planning""; ""4. The More Complex Plans of a Character""""5. Choice Includes Revision of Ends""""6. Fitting Contemplation in a Life""; ""7. Good and Bad Characters""; ""4. THE SHARED LIFE""; ""1. Aristotle and Kant""; ""2. Friends as External Goods""; ""3. Happiness as Including the Happiness of Others""; ""4. Friendship and Wider Altruism""; ""5. A Friend as Another but Separate Self""; ""6. Conditions for Attachment""; ""7. Virtuous Parents and Virtuous Children (or Sons)""; ""8. The Limitations of Private Education""; ""5. THE HABITUATION OF CHARACTER""; ""1. The Viability of a Developmental Model""""2. The Rationality of the Non-Rational Part""""3. The Inappropriateness of Harsh Sanctions""; ""4. The Intentionality of Emotions""; ""5. Learning to See Aright""; ""6. Learning to Make Choices""; ""7. Habituation as Critical Practice""; ""8. The Pleasure Intrinsic to Practice""; ""9. Practice Includes Experience""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Index Locorum""The author argues that traditional conceptions of Aristotelian habituation have ignored the critical role of practical reason in both the development of virtue and the emotions constitutive of virtue. Virtue is, thus, neither the product of mindless drill nor of well-behaved, but ultimately stupid emotions.VirtueHistoryCharacterHistoryElectronic books.VirtueHistory.CharacterHistory.171.3Sherman Nancy1951-538123MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456129203321The fabric of character2144889UNINA