Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism

Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 12
PART I  Ethics and Psychological Realism......Page 30
Prologue:  Saints......Page 18
The Topic......Page 32
Ethics, Psychology, and the Human Sciences......Page 37
The Autonomy Thesis......Page 41
Minimal Psychological Realism......Page 49
Psychological Distance......Page 55
Natural and Social Psychological Traits......Page 58
Environmental Sensitivity......Page 63
Natural Teleology and the Naturalistic Fallacy......Page 66
The Argument from the Personal Point of View......Page 73
Minimal Persons......Page 76
Persons and Plans......Page 82
Characters, Commitments, and Projects......Page 85
Separateness and Impersonality......Page 88
Strong Realism and Socially Fortified Persons......Page 96
Abstraction and Kinds of Impartiality......Page 100
Integrity, Alienation, and Virtues of Form......Page 108
PART II  Liberal and Communitarian Philosophical Psychology......Page 120
The Social Construction of Persons......Page 122
The Classical Picture and the Primacy of Justice......Page 125
Community, Friendship, and Flourishing......Page 129
Appreciation, Emulation, and Self-Respect......Page 135
Social Union......Page 139
Actual and Self-Represented Identity......Page 150
Identity, Self-Esteem, and Effective Agency......Page 156
Self-Understanding, Encumbered Identity, and Psychological Realism......Page 158
Self-Understanding and Like-Mindedness......Page 162
Narrativity and Homogeneity......Page 165
PART III  Moral Psychology......Page 176
Psychological Realism and Deep Structure......Page 178
The Moral Judgment of the Child......Page 179
Moral Consciousness, Speech Acting, and Opacity......Page 182
Rules and Autonomy: The Marble Study......Page 185
Games and Gender......Page 189
Consequences and Intentions......Page 192
The “Consciousness of Something Attractive”......Page 194
Stage Theory......Page 198
Stage Holism and Globality......Page 202
Moral Stage, Character Assessment, and Unified Justification......Page 204
Development and Improvement......Page 208
The Adequacy of the Highest Stage......Page 210
ldentity and Morality......Page 213
Psychological Realism and Gender......Page 215
Two Different Global Voices?......Page 220
Gestalt Shifts......Page 229
The No-Difference Claim......Page 235
The Relation of Justice and Care......Page 238
Further Empirical Questions......Page 245
Six Theses......Page 252
The Separate-but-Equal Doctrine......Page 253
The Integration Doctrine......Page 255
The Hammer- Wrench Doctrine......Page 256
Impartialism......Page 258
Noncognitivist  Care......Page 260
Context-Sensitive Care......Page 264
PART IV Situations, Dispositions, and Well-Being......Page 270
Two Thought Experiments about Character......Page 272
Persons in Situations......Page 277
Moral Gaps and the Unity of Character......Page 283
Moral Modularity......Page 285
Traits and Traitology......Page 293
lndividual Trait Globality and Situation Sensitivity......Page 296
The Trait-Inference Network and Evaluative Consistency......Page 299
Evaluative Consistency, the Authoritarian Personality, and Authoritarian Behavior......Page 304
Moral Traits......Page 307
Miligram’s “One Great Unchanging Result“......Page 310
Coercion and Rebellion in Groups......Page 315
Situations and Samaritans......Page 317
Attribution Theory and Moral Personality......Page 322
Illusion and Well-Being......Page 332
The Traditional View Meets the Facts......Page 335
The Traditional View  versus the Classical View......Page 340
Virtue, Again......Page 346
Epilogue......Page 350
Notes......Page 356
References......Page 372
Index......Page 392