The Evolution of Ethics: Human Sociality and the Emergence of Ethical Mindedness

by B. Fowers

Overview

In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137344663
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/17/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	385
File size:	806 KB

About the Author

Blaine Fowers is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami, USA. His scholarship centers on applying Aristotle's ethics to psychological theory, research, and practice. He studies goal pursuit, flourishing, and virtue. Fowers is a co-author of Re-envisioning Psychology and the author of Virtue and Psychology and Beyond the Myth of Marital Happiness.

Table of Contents

PART I: EVOLVED HUMAN NATURE Introduction 1. Flourishing and the Function Argument 2. Evolved Human Nature PART II: HUMAN SOCIALITY 3. Attachment and Friendship 4. Intersubjectivity and Identity 5. Imitation and the Intricacies of Knowledge 6. Cooperation, Trust, and Justice 7. The Expanding Cultural World, Harmony, and Belonging 8. The Most Political Animals and Shared Identity 9. Conflict, Hierarchy, Social Order, and Status PART III: CONCLUSION 10. An Aristotelian Theory of Natural Ethics