[Xmca-l] Re: Appeal for help

[Andy Blunden]

I think this is true of *all* cultures, Elinami.

Andy

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

On 5/07/2016 4:08 PM, Elinami Swai wrote:
> Dear Andy. Coming from gender studies, the concepts of 'family honor,'
> and/or 'culture of honor' come to mind where a person's identity
> depends largely on family and culture.
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> On 05/07/2016, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>> 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
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