[Xmca-l] Appeal for help

[Andy Blunden]

Comrade and friends, I need some help.

I am setting about developing a new approach to virtue 
ethics. Virtues are everywhere taken to be deep-seated 
attributes of a person's character; my aim is to make the 
starting point instead from virtues defined as deep-seated 
attributes of a project, which you can take to mean "social 
context" or "system of activity" if you wish. I don't need 
advice about issues and problems of ethics, but it is in in 
the nature of virtue ethics that it always has strong 
implications for psychology as well as social theory, to the 
extent that I think I can make a great deal of progress by 
calling on psychological data.

Can people point me to research(ers) about how a person's 
character changes with social context (e.g. home/work), any 
evidence of the well-known phenomenon in which a person 
promoted above the ability suffers a moral degeneration; any 
suitable and reliable data about the differing character 
(not just preferences or cognition, but virtues) of people 
from one culture or another? or similar information about 
changes in a person's character following their emigration 
to another country?

URLs appreciated, or whole books, I don't have access to a 
university library or JSTOR.

Thanks

Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making