Evolution of Ethics - Human Sociality and the Emergence of Ethical Mindedness

Informationen zum Autor Blaine Fowers is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami, USA. His scholarship centers on applying Aristotle's ethics to psychological theory, research, and practice. He studies goal pursuit, flourishing, and virtue. Fowers is a co-author of Re-envisioning Psychology and the author of Virtue and Psychology and Beyond the Myth of Marital Happiness. Klappentext In this ground-breaking book! Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative! psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world. Zusammenfassung In this ground-breaking book! Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative! psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: EVOLVED HUMAN NATURE Introduction 1. Flourishing and the Function Argument 2. Evolved Human Nature PART II: HUMAN SOCIALITY 3. Attachment and Friendship 4. Intersubjectivity and Identity 5. Imitation and the Intricacies of Knowledge 6. Cooperation, Trust, and Justice 7. The Expanding Cultural World, Harmony, and Belonging 8. The Most Political Animals and Shared Identity 9. Conflict, Hierarchy, Social Order, and Status PART III: CONCLUSION 10. An Aristotelian Theory of Natural Ethics

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PART I: EVOLVED HUMAN NATURE Introduction 1. Flourishing and the Function Argument 2. Evolved Human Nature PART II: HUMAN SOCIALITY 3. Attachment and Friendship 4. Intersubjectivity and Identity 5. Imitation and the Intricacies of Knowledge 6. Cooperation, Trust, and Justice 7. The Expanding Cultural World, Harmony, and Belonging 8. The Most Political Animals and Shared Identity 9. Conflict, Hierarchy, Social Order, and Status PART III: CONCLUSION 10. An Aristotelian Theory of Natural Ethics

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• Authors: B Fowers, B. Fowers, Blaine J (Univ. Of Miami University of Mia Fowers, Blaine J (Univ. of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami University of Miami Unive Fowers
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349466139
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46613-9
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology; Palgrave Studies in the Theory; Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Ethics, personality, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Environmental Psychology, cognitive psychology, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Biological Psychology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Moral Philosophy