Moral Cultivation: Essays on the Development of Character and VirtueBrad K. Wilburn Lexington Books, 2007 - 159 páginas The volume Moral Cultivation explores an overlooked topic in the renewed interest in virtue ethics, the concept of moral cultivation. While the study of virtue ethics focuses on the concept of virtue itself, an exploration of moral cultivation explores the process of attaining that virtue. The essays in this collection explore the question: How do we develop good character? Brad Wilburn has brought together a range of moral perspectives on this issue. Drawing on many different traditions, the essayists employ many schools of thought and thinkers regarding this issue, including: the Confucian tradition, Ancient Greek philosophy, Classical Rabbinic thought, the moral theory of Hume, and the imperatives of Kant. Although the essays cover a wide breadth, the focus is on a few basic questions: What does moral cultivation look like? What parts of us need to be cultivated and what methods should be used? How do moral theories connect with this aspect of our moral experience? Moral Cultivation is a great contribution to the study of virtue ethics. It is a rewarding volume for all levels of thinkers and students with an interest in philosophy or ethics. |
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... Attitude Joel J. Kupperman 2 Literature and Ethics in the Chinese Confucian Tradition 29 Philip J. Ivanhoe 3 Moral Philosophy and Moral Cultivation 49 William J. Prior 4 Moral Self - Improvement 69 Brad K. Wilburn 5 Self - Cultivation ...
... Attitude Joel J. Kupperman 2 Literature and Ethics in the Chinese Confucian Tradition 29 Philip J. Ivanhoe 3 Moral Philosophy and Moral Cultivation 49 William J. Prior 4 Moral Self - Improvement 69 Brad K. Wilburn 5 Self - Cultivation ...
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... attitude are morally significant . He argues that style and attitude play a causal role in ethical reflection and also that style and attitude are constitutive elements of good choices . One of the causal roles that he points to is the ...
... attitude are morally significant . He argues that style and attitude play a causal role in ethical reflection and also that style and attitude are constitutive elements of good choices . One of the causal roles that he points to is the ...
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... attitude play a constitutive role in good choice , not just a causal role , according to Kupperman , is the realm of personal relationships . Confucius places a strong emphasis on fulfilling one's obligations to one's parents . But a ...
... attitude play a constitutive role in good choice , not just a causal role , according to Kupperman , is the realm of personal relationships . Confucius places a strong emphasis on fulfilling one's obligations to one's parents . But a ...
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... attitudes with the nature of the ritual . " ( Kupperman , 24 ) One might start out participating in the ritual in a forced way , but eventually one will become more comfortable in the ritual as the corresponding attitudes develop . One ...
... attitudes with the nature of the ritual . " ( Kupperman , 24 ) One might start out participating in the ritual in a forced way , but eventually one will become more comfortable in the ritual as the corresponding attitudes develop . One ...
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... attitudes , and commitments that constitutes a full sense of what is morally wrong with racism . " ( Ivanhoe , 31 ) This theme of the importance of attending to the richly complex concrete , in addition to the idealized and ab- stract ...
... attitudes , and commitments that constitutes a full sense of what is morally wrong with racism . " ( Ivanhoe , 31 ) This theme of the importance of attending to the richly complex concrete , in addition to the idealized and ab- stract ...
Contenido
The Ethics of Style and Attitude | 13 |
Literature and Ethics in the Chinese Confucian Tradition | 29 |
Moral Philosophy and Moral Cultivation | 49 |
Moral SelfImprovement | 69 |
SelfCultivation and Relations with Others in Classical Rabbinic Thought | 85 |
Moral Naturalism and the Possibility of Making Ourselves Better | 101 |
SelfDevelopment as an Imperfect Duty | 125 |
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Moral Cultivation: Essays on the Development of Character and Virtue Brad Wilburn Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Moral Cultivation: Essays on the Development of Character and Virtue Brad Wilburn Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
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