Honesty : the philosophy and psychology of a neglected virtue / Christian B. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Christian B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Honesty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Philosophy and psychology of a neglected virtue

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Honesty is an important virtue, yet philosophers have said almost nothing about the virtue of honesty in the past fifty years. This book aims to draw attention to this surprisingly neglected virtue. It first provides a theory of honesty, looking at honest behavior, motivation, and thinking. From there it turns to relevant empirical research, and explores how most people are neither good enough to count as honest nor bad enough to count as dishonest.

Contents:

Preface: A Neglected Virtue

I. The Philosophy of Honesty

1. Preliminaries to Developing an Account of Honesty

2. A Preliminary Account of Honesty

3. Refining the Account: Considering Challenges and Counterexamples

4. Motivation and Honesty

5. Practical Wisdom and Honesty

6. Dishonesty and the Virtuousness of Honesty

Interlude

7. Classification and Taxonomy

II. The Empirical Data

8. Research on Stealing and Promise-Breaking

9. Research on Lying and Cheating

10. The Emerging Psychological and Moral Picture

Afterword: Improving our Less Than Honest Characters

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756752-5

0-19-756751-7

OCLC:

1230250909