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Oct 21, 2014 · By avoiding moral prescriptives, Kristjánsson argues, positive psychologists maintain a relativism that undermines their own theories of moral behaviour. Indeed, by adopting the nomenclature ‘value’ rather than the stronger word ‘virtue’, positive psychologists have avoided an internal moral state in favour of a personal position.
- A.D. Seroczynski
- 2015
In their dispositional forms, virtue and vice can figure in psychological explanations, as when we say someone helped a stranger because he has the character trait of benevolence. These explanations are challenged by situationist social psychology, which says less of our behaviour than we think is explained by character and more by seemingly trivial features of our situation.
Research in positive psychology has focused on either (1) positive emotions, (2) happiness or subjective well-being, or (3) character strengths or virtues. This chapter emphasizes viewing it more in terms of eudaimonic virtue (for self and other). Positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality are joined by studying virtue ...
Aug 24, 2020 · The merit of a proposal for a science of virtues depends partly on the degree to which virtue is important in human behavior. It turns out that virtue, vice, character, and related terms (e.g., trustworthiness) are widely used in ordinary discourse to understand individuals’ behavior and appear to be among the most important factors in impression formation (Brambilla, Rusconi, Sacchi ...
- Blaine J. Fowers, Jason S. Carroll, Nathan D. Leonhardt, Bradford Cokelet
- 2021
Jan 4, 2017 · Abstract. Attribution of virtues and vices is commonplace. Saying someone has a virtue helps us explain her behavior and form expectations about how she will behave in the future. Built on the universality of these attributions, virtue ethics has had a long tradition in philosophy, with Aristotle standing at the pinnacle, as well as a modern ...
- brian.robinson.phd@gmail.com
a specific virtue; (b) provide a cutting edge review of the empirical literature on the virtue from both psychology of religion and positive psychology; (c) analyze connections and points of depar-ture between secular and religious expression, formation, or con-sequences of the virtue; (d) propose a new model or testable
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IRTUES AND VICES IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Positive psychology is one of the biggest growth ind. stries in the discipline of psy-chology. At the present time, the sub-fi eld of ‘positive education’ seems poised to take the world of. education and teacher training by storm. In this fi rst book-length philosophical study of positive psychology ...
