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Emotion and virtue / Gopal Sreenivasan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sreenivasan, Gopal, author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtues.
- Compassion.
- Courage.
- Emotions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.) : 8 b/w illus., 3 tables
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- What must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, this book ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an indispensable role in virtue.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Credo
- 2. The Integral View
- Preliminaries
- 3. Emotion
- 4. Disunity of Virtue
- 5. Character Traits
- Arguments
- 6. Adverbial Requirements
- 7. Salience without a Black Box
- 8. Moral Deference and the Proto-authority of Affect
- 9. Recap with Courage
- Consequences
- 10. Agents versus Acts
- 11. Against the Priority of Principle
- 12. Should Virtue Be Taught?
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691212517
- 0691212511
- 9780691208701
- 0691208700
- OCLC:
- 1197700235
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