Developing the virtues: integrating perspectives

329 Pages·2016·2.512 MB·English

by  Julia Annas, Darcia Narvaez, Nancy E. Snow

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Developing the Virtues
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Developing the Virtues
Integrating Perspectives
EDITED BY JULIA ANNAS, DARCIA NARVAEZ
and
NANCY E. SNOW
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Names: Annas, Julia, editor.
Title: Developing the virtues : integrating perspectives / edited by Julia
Annas, Darcia Narvaez, and Nancy E. Snow.
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bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Virtue. | Conduct of life. | Virtues.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Nancy E. Snow, Darcia Narvaez, and Julia Annas
1. Baselines for Virtue 14
Darcia Narvaez
2. Moral Self- Identity and the Social- Cognitive Theory of Virtue 34
Daniel Lapsley
3. From a Baby Smiling: Reflections on Virtues in Development 69
Robert N. Emde
4. The Development of Virtuous Character: Automatic
and Reflective Dispositions 95
Ross A. Thompson and Abby S. Lavine
5. Developmental Virtue Ethics 116
Christine Swanton
6. How Habits Make Us Virtuous 135
Nancy E. Snow
7. Virtue Cultivation in Light of Situationism 157
Christian B. Miller
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8. Becoming Good: Narrow Dispositions and the Stability
of Virtue 184
Rachana Kamtekar
9. The Role of Motivation and Wisdom in Virtues as Skills 204
Matt Stichter
10. Learning Virtue Rules: The Issue of Thick Concepts 224
Julia Annas
11. Guilt and Shame in the Development of Virtue 235
Jennifer A. Herdt
12. Benevolence in a Justice- Based World: The Power of Sentiments
(and Reasoning) in Predicting Prosocial Behaviors 255
Gustavo Carlo and Alexandra N. Davis
13. Norms of Justice in Development 273
Mark LeBar
Index 295
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors extend their gratitude to the University of Notre Dame’s Institute
for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and departments of psychology and philos-
ophy for supporting the symposium in May 2014 that brought together many
of the book’s contributors. Editors Snow and Narvaez also wish to acknowl-
edge the support of the Templeton Religion Trust, under the Self, Motivation,
and Virtue grant project, for book preparation. Snow also gratefully acknowl-
edges assistance from the John Templeton Foundation. All three editors grate-
fully acknowledge the editorial assistance of Jennifer Marra.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Julia Annas is Regents Professor in Philosophy at the University of Arizona,
having also taught at Oxford. She was the founding editor of Oxford Studies
in Ancient Philosophy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is a past President of
the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. She has been
both a junior and senior member of the Society for Hellenic Studies. She has
published many books and articles in ancient philosophy, particularly ancient
ethics, and more recently in contemporary virtue ethics.
Gustavo Carlo is the Millsap Endowed Professor of Diversity and
Multicultural Studies in the Department of Human Development and Family
Science at the University of Missouri. His research interest is in prosocial
and moral behaviors in children and adolescents, particularly focused on
the personality, parenting, and sociocultural correlates of prosocial behav-
iors. Dr. Carlo has authored over 150 articles research journals and co- edited
several books, including Moral Development through the Life Span, Health
Disparities among Ethnic Minority Families and Youth, Handbook of U.S. Latino
Psychology, and his two recent books, Prosocial Behaviors: A Multidimensional
Approach and Rural Ethnic Minority Families and Youth in the United States.
He has served as Associate Editor and as an editorial board member for sev-
eral journals and has served on grant review panels. His research has been
supported by grants from NICHD and NSF, and he is a Fellow of the APA
and APS.
Alexandra N. Davis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Human
Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri. Her research
interests focus on stress, risk and resilience, and prosocial development in low
socioeconomic status, marginalized, and racial/ ethnic minority children and
adolescents.
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