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The Character Gap: How Good Are We? de Christian B. Miller

The Character Gap: How Good Are We?: Philosophy in Action

Autor Christian B. Miller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 ian 2018

În cadrul programelor de studiu dedicate eticii aplicate și psihologiei morale, The Character Gap ocupă un loc central prin abordarea sa empirică asupra virtuții. Subliniem faptul că autorul Christian B. Miller propune o schimbare de paradigmă: nu suntem nici sfinți, nici monștri, ci un „amestec” (mixed bag) de impulsuri contradictorii. Descoperim aici o analiză riguroasă a modului în care presiunea autorității sau simpla prezență a celorlalți ne pot altera comportamentul moral, fapte susținute de sute de studii experimentale citate în volum.

Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă accesibilă la Character de Jay R. Elliott pentru cursurile de filozofie a caracterului, cu avantajul că Christian B. Miller nu se limitează la dezbaterea teoretică dintre virtute și situaționism, ci oferă soluții practice, atât laice cât și religioase, pentru a reduce distanța dintre cine suntem și cine ar trebui să fim. Reținem structura logică a cărții care pornește de la definirea caracterului bun, trece prin dovezile psihologice ale eșecurilor noastre morale și culminează cu strategii de dezvoltare personală.

În contextul operei sale, The Character Gap rafinează temele explorate în Moral Psychology – Virtue and Character și Moral Character. Dacă lucrările anterioare erau adresate mai degrabă mediului academic, volumul de față, publicat în seria Philosophy in Action, traduce cercetarea complexă într-un limbaj clar, fără a sacrifica rigoarea analitică specifică Oxford University Press. Este o sinteză matură care transformă psihologia experimentală într-un instrument de reflecție etică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190264222
ISBN-10: 0190264225
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 185 x 134 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Philosophy in Action

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților la filozofie și psihologie, dar și cititorului preocupat de etică practică. The Character Gap oferă o înțelegere onestă a limitelor noastre morale, bazată pe date științifice, nu pe intuiții. Cititorul câștigă o metodologie clară pentru auto-evaluare și strategii concrete pentru a cultiva virtuți precum onestitatea și compasiunea într-o lume care ne testează constant caracterul.

Despre autor

Christian B. Miller este un renumit profesor de filozofie, specializat în etică și psihologie morală. Lucrările sale se concentrează pe intersecția dintre filozofia tradițională a virtuții și descoperirile moderne din neuroștiințe și științe cognitive. A coordonat proiecte majore de cercetare despre caracter, contribuind la volume fundamentale precum Moral Psychology, Volume 1 și Honesty. Expertiza sa este recunoscută internațional, fiind o voce autoritară în dezbaterea despre modul în care trăsăturile de caracter influențează comportamentul uman în contexte sociale complexe.

Descriere

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as pretty decent people. We may not be saints, but we are basically good, fairly honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. One of the central themes of The Character Gap is that we are badly mistaken in thinking this way. In recent years, hundreds of psychological studies have been done which tell a rather different story. We have serious character flaws that prevent us from being good people, many of which we do not even recognize in ourselves. Does this mean that instead we are wretched people, vicious, cruel or hateful? Christian Miller does not argue that this is necessarily the case either. Instead, the more we put our characters to the test, the more we see that we are a mixed bag. On the one hand, most of us as bystanders will do nothing as someone cries out for help. Even worse, under pressure from authority figures we might kill innocent people. Yet it is also true that there will be many times when we selflessly come to the aid of a complete stranger, or don't lie, steal, or cheat even if we could get away with it. As we embark on this journey of putting our characters to the test, some of the main questions will include:What is good character?Why should we bother working to develop a good character?What does the research in psychology suggest about how good (or bad) our characters really are?What secular strategies for improving our characters show a lot of promise?What religious, and specifically Christian, strategies for improving our characters show a lot of promise?In The Character Gap Miller shows not only how mixed our characters tend to be, but also how we can try to bridge the gap between who we are and the virtuous people we should strive to become.

Recenzii

The book is a sobering reflection on the ambivalent nature of human behaviour and motivation, made all the more authoritative by its research basis.
a beautifully crafted book, and rewards several reads.
It is accessible and it makes you think. It engages and entertains. It tells you what character is and lets you know how you can cultivate it. This book is a must read. Full of facts that will stay with you. It is well researched and the author really knows his stuff. Brilliant.
This is a book full of insight, informed by research and written by someone with a profound understanding of character. It is a must read for anyone looking for a fresh presentation of its importance in human life.
Christian Miller cautions that this is not a self-help book. Don't believe him. Of course, it is not a set of tips and tricks to magically become a better person. But if honest, realistic self-knowledge and clear-eyed empathy are crucial for the moral life, then this book will help. Anyone serious about traveling the road to character should bring this book on the journey.
The topic of character is both timeless and timely. In this especially lucid and personal narrative, Christian Miller guides the interested reader through the modern science of character, with special emphasis on its moral aspects, and with helpful and practical recommendations for its development.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught us that nothing that we despise in the other is entirely absent from ourselves. Christian Miller teaches us that the road to virtue lies in humility about our own virtue and an acceptance that others are struggling with their flaws. This is a very valuable book at a moment when our society could use a dose of openness and a sense of forgiveness.
The Character Gap is a careful and accessible entry point into the complicated topic of human moral character.

Notă biografică

Christian B. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and Director of the Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), which was funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 75 papers as well as two books with Oxford University Press: Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013) and Character and Moral Psychology (2014). He is also the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (Oxford University Press), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press), Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking (Oxford University Press), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press).