Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Crafting Character
Redaktion: Jacobs, Jonathan; Meyer, Heinz-Dieter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040109304
• Artikelnr.: 72273186

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Jacobs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics at John Jay College/CUNY. He is also a member of the Doctoral Faculty of Philosophy at CUNY. His most recent books are The Liberal State and Criminal Sanction: Seeking Justice and Civility, (Oxford University Press 2020) and Criminology and Moral Philosophy: Empirical Methods and the Study of Values (Routledge 2022). Jacobs has held Fulbright Scholar, NEH, and Earhart Foundation grants, and has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Fellow at University of Edinburgh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hebrew University, University of St. Andrews, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is also the editor of the journal Criminal Justice Ethics. Heinz-Dieter Meyer (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of education at State University of New York (Albany). He has been Harman Fellow at Harvard University and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award. He has taught at Goettingen University and been Visiting Professor at Penn State University, Beijing University, Boston University, and the East-West Institute (Honolulu). His recent publications include Knowledge and Civil Society (with Glueckler and Suarsana), 2021, and The Design of the University: German, American, and 'World Class' (Routledge 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Exploring Moral Agency Across Traditions Jonathan
Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer Part 2: Perspectives on Agency and Character
2. Early Confucianism as a Model for Crafting Character Philip J. Ivanhoe
3. Moral Habituation and Techn¿ in Aristotle's Ethics Tom Angier 4.
Crafting Character: Lessons from Confucianism and Stoicism May Sim 5. The
Zen Transformation of Ordinary Life into Buddhist Practice: Eating and
Drinking as Exploration of Buddha-Nature Christopher W. Gowans 6. Must We
Become Who We Are? Aristotle, Confucius, and Maimonides on Moral Agency and
Character Jonathan Jacobs 7. The Heart-Mind as that Which Needs Moral
Formation: Heinz-Dieter Meyer 8. Kant on Self-Governance: The Structural
Nexus of Practical Reason, Will, and Gemüt (Mind) G. Felicitas Munzel 9. On
the Use and Misuse of Moral Exemplars for Self-Improvement Amber D.
Carpenter 10. Crafting Character with Aristotle and Augustine George
Heffernan 11. Moral Agency, Situationism, and Virtue: Xunzi on Moral
Development Richard Kim 12. Selfless Agency and the Cultivation of a Moral
Character: Insights from Vasubandhu and Derek Parfit Oren Hanner 13. The
Formation of Moral Character Through No-Self in Neo-Confucian Thought Doil
Kim Part 3: Character and Commensurability 14. The Heart-Mind in the
West-Testing for Common Ground Heinz-Dieter Meyer 15. A Look Back to Find a
Way Forward Jonathan Jacobs