Moral Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780813330334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 303 str.

Daniel K. Lapsley

Opis

Moral functioning is a defining feature of human personhood and human social life. Moral Psychology provides an integrative and evaluative overview of the theoretical and empirical traditions that have attempted to make sense of moral cognition, prosocial behavior, and the development of virtuous character.This is the first book to integrate a comprehensive review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics. Moral rationality and decisionmaking; the development of the sense of fairness and justice, and of prosocial dispositions; as well as the notion of moral self and moral identity and their relation to issues of character and virtue are fully discussed in the rich contexts provided by psychological and philosophical paradigms. Lapsley emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning, and character development, and charts a line of research for the post-Kohlbergian era in moral psychology.This book will be an invaluable text for advanced courses in moral psychology, as taught in departments of psychology, education, and philosophy. It will also prove to be a standard reference work for researchers and ethicists alike."

Spis treści

Developmental Psychology Series -- Preface -- Piaget’s Theory: Stage and Structure -- Piaget’s Moral Judgment of the Child -- Kohlberg’s Theory: An Overview -- Kohlberg’s Stage Theory -- Moral Components and the Defining Issues Test: Enlarging and Constricting the Moral Domain -- Domains of Social Knowledge -- Moral Orientations: Gender, Benevolence, Caring -- Positive Justice and Prosocial Reasoning -- Prosocial Behavior -- Moral Traits and the Moral Personality -- The Moral Personality: Socioanalytic Theory -- The Moral Self -- Postscript -- About the Book and Author

O autorze

Daniel K. Lapsley teaches in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University. He has taught previously at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at the University of Notre Dame.