Virtuous Emotions

ISBN-13: 9780198809678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Kristjan Kristjansson

Opis

Virtue ethics sees emotions as central to the good life. But how can emotions over which we have no control be virtuous or non-virtuous? And how can education develop those emotions? Kristjan Kristjansson explores the ways in which six emotions (awe, grief, jealousy, shame, gratitude, and pity) can be understood as virtuous and educable.

Recenzje

This methodology results in a book which has immense value as a learning tool ... Philosophy, and very specially Ancient Philosophy,is in dire need to reach out of its own boundaries, and Kristjánsson does that brilliantly.

O autorze

Kristján Kristjánsson is Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the University of Birmingham. His interests lie in research on character and virtues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. He has published six books on those issues. In 2011, Kristjánsson was awarded the Ása Wright Award, the most prestigious award given annually to an Icelandic scholar. His Aristotelian Character Education (Routledge) was voted the best Education book published in the UK in 2015 by the Society for Educational Studies.