The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness

ISBN-13: 9780415656146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 322 str.

Nancy E. Snow; Franco Trivigno

Opis

Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism - that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology - this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, and happiness, and related issues such as personality, emotion and cognition, attitudes and automaticity. Researchers at the top of their fields offer exciting work that expands the horizons of empirically informed research on topics central to virtue ethics.

Recenzje

"Finely integrating the findings of moral philosophy and psychology, this book contains a plethora of rich insights into eudaemonistic concepts of happiness. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above."--S. A. Mason, CHOICE