| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Attachment and Character: Attachment Theory, Ethics, and the Developmental Psychology of Vice and Virtue -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- 1: Attachment Theory and Moral Development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Précis of Attachment Theory -- 3. Security of Attachment and Moral Development -- 3.1 Self-regulation and emotion regulation -- 3.2 Social problem-solving and conflict avoidance with peers -- 3.3 Emotion understanding and empathy -- 3.4 Conscience and the moral self -- 3.5 Prosocial behaviour |
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3.6 Interim conclusion -- 4. Toward an Attachment Perspective to Moral Development -- 4.1 Developing a premoral sensibility -- 4.2 From premoral to moral -- 5. Concluding Comments -- References -- 2: Dimensions, Determinants, and Development of Prosocial Behaviour: A Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis on Attachment and Moral Character -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is Prosocial Behaviour? -- 2.1 Evolutionary explanations of prosociality -- 2.2 Development of prosocial behaviour -- 3. Determinants of prosocial behaviour -- 3.1 Genes for generosity? -- 3.2 Benevolent brains? |
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3.3 Enduring environmental influence: parenting -- 3.4 Concurrent environmental influence: nudges -- 3.5 Differential susceptibility -- 4. Stimulating prosociality -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 3: Attachment, the Virtues, and the Vices: Some Developmental and Conceptual Considerations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristotle, the Virtues and the Vices -- 3. Attachment Theory and Research -- 4. Current Evidence Regarding the Origins of Social and Antisocial Behaviours |
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5. Why might Early Secure Attachment Lay the Foundations for the Virtues and Insecure or Disorganized Attachment Create Risk for the Vices? -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 4: The Evolved Nest, Virtue, and Vice -- 1. The Setting -- 2. The Diagnosis -- 3. And now? -- 4. Virtue Development in Communities that Provide the Evolved Nest -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Virtues of Attachment -- 1. Introduction: A Tale of Two Mothers -- 2. Aristotelian Naturalism: A Sketch -- 3. Attachment Theory: A Sketch -- 4. Attached to Virtue? -- 4.1 Scenario One: a question of development |
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4.2 Scenario Two: the good life and achieved excellence -- 4.3 Scenario Three: competing conceptions of the virtues -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 6: Beyond Virtue: The Development of Reproductive Strategies -- 1. A Modern, Evolutionary Perspective -- 2. Psychological Views of Human Nature and the Perfectibility of Man -- 2.1 Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization -- 2.2 Erik Erikson's eight stages of development -- 2.3 John Bowlby's attachment theory -- 3. Evolutionary Challenge: Reproductive Strategies -- 3.1 The puberty hypothesis -- 3.2 Beyond the puberty hypothesis -- 4. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Attachment and Character presents new essays by philosophers and psychologists exploring the illumination that attachment theory can offer for philosophers working in moral psychology or in 'virtue ethics' - in the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, human excellence, and the best life for human beings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 6, 2022) |
| Subject |
Attachment behavior.
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Virtue.
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Psychology and philosophy.
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Ethics.
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Object Attachment
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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Attachment behavior
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Ethics
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Psychology and philosophy
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Virtue
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harcourt, Edward, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192653093 |
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0192653091 |
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0192653105 |
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9780192653109 |
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0191924571 |
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9780191924576 |
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