Thomas Schramme (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027915
- eISBN:
- 9780262320382
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027915.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the ...
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Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need to be moral by examining cases of real people who seem to lack those capacities. The volume proceeds from the basic assumption that psychopathy is not characterized by a single deficit–for example, the lack of empathy, as some philosophers have proposed – but by a range of them. Thus contributors address specific deficits that include impairments in rationality, language, fellow-feeling, volition, evaluation, and sympathy. They also consider such issues in moral psychology as moral motivation, moral emotions, and moral character; and they examine social aspects of psychopathic behavior, including ascriptions of moral responsibility, justification of moral blame, and social and legal responses to people perceived to be dangerous.Less
Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need to be moral by examining cases of real people who seem to lack those capacities. The volume proceeds from the basic assumption that psychopathy is not characterized by a single deficit–for example, the lack of empathy, as some philosophers have proposed – but by a range of them. Thus contributors address specific deficits that include impairments in rationality, language, fellow-feeling, volition, evaluation, and sympathy. They also consider such issues in moral psychology as moral motivation, moral emotions, and moral character; and they examine social aspects of psychopathic behavior, including ascriptions of moral responsibility, justification of moral blame, and social and legal responses to people perceived to be dangerous.
Mathew A. Foust
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823242696
- eISBN:
- 9780823242733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823242696.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter joins Royce in tracing the origins and development of ethical experience. Because for Royce, the genuine moral life is one of loyalty and loyalty to loyalty, in articulating a Roycean ...
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This chapter joins Royce in tracing the origins and development of ethical experience. Because for Royce, the genuine moral life is one of loyalty and loyalty to loyalty, in articulating a Roycean view of the cultivation of loyalty, a Roycean picture of moral development is presented. It is noted that for Royce, a person may be regarded as a human life lived according to a plan. For Royce, an individual says who he is by describing his purposes and causes, what he intends to do in his life. The chapter joins Royce in tracing the formation of “plans of life” as far back as infancy. Among sources consulted are unpublished psychological writings of Royce’s, bearing compelling similarity and relevance to his published writings on loyalty. It is argued that imitative processes in infancy and childhood are precursors to loyalty, and ethical experience generally, in its mature forms. In addition, Royce's attention to the learning of loyalty in adolescence and adulthood is discussed, with emphasis placed on physical education in adolescence and the significance of “lost causes” in adulthood.Less
This chapter joins Royce in tracing the origins and development of ethical experience. Because for Royce, the genuine moral life is one of loyalty and loyalty to loyalty, in articulating a Roycean view of the cultivation of loyalty, a Roycean picture of moral development is presented. It is noted that for Royce, a person may be regarded as a human life lived according to a plan. For Royce, an individual says who he is by describing his purposes and causes, what he intends to do in his life. The chapter joins Royce in tracing the formation of “plans of life” as far back as infancy. Among sources consulted are unpublished psychological writings of Royce’s, bearing compelling similarity and relevance to his published writings on loyalty. It is argued that imitative processes in infancy and childhood are precursors to loyalty, and ethical experience generally, in its mature forms. In addition, Royce's attention to the learning of loyalty in adolescence and adulthood is discussed, with emphasis placed on physical education in adolescence and the significance of “lost causes” in adulthood.
Patrick Fessenbecker
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474460606
- eISBN:
- 9781474484817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460606.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Victoria Glendinning has noted that the “Ur-story” of Trollope’s novels consists of a romantic triangle where a protagonist is romantically committed to one character, yet becomes attracted to ...
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Victoria Glendinning has noted that the “Ur-story” of Trollope’s novels consists of a romantic triangle where a protagonist is romantically committed to one character, yet becomes attracted to another character and hence delays the fulfillment of the first relationship. Trollope’s use of this form is not accidental: his novels return repeatedly and reflectively to agents who act against their own best judgment. Characters like Phineas Finn, who act on impulses they wish they did not have and for reasons with which they themselves disagree, demonstrate the centrality of the philosophical problem of akrasia or “weakness of the will” to Trollope’s thought, and thus make clear the extent to which Trollope’s use of the form of the romantic triangle is a tool for the analysis of a problem in moral psychology.Less
Victoria Glendinning has noted that the “Ur-story” of Trollope’s novels consists of a romantic triangle where a protagonist is romantically committed to one character, yet becomes attracted to another character and hence delays the fulfillment of the first relationship. Trollope’s use of this form is not accidental: his novels return repeatedly and reflectively to agents who act against their own best judgment. Characters like Phineas Finn, who act on impulses they wish they did not have and for reasons with which they themselves disagree, demonstrate the centrality of the philosophical problem of akrasia or “weakness of the will” to Trollope’s thought, and thus make clear the extent to which Trollope’s use of the form of the romantic triangle is a tool for the analysis of a problem in moral psychology.
