Attachment and character : attachment theory, ethics, and the developmental psychology of vice and virtue

Attachment and character : attachment theory, ethics, and the developmental psychology of vice and virtue / edited by Edward Harcourt.

Attachment and Character presents new essays by philosophers and psychologists exploring the illumination that attachment theory can offer for philosophers working in moral psychology or in 'virtue ethics' - in the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, human excel...

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Other Authors: Harcourt, Edward (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Attachment behavior.
Virtue.
Psychology and philosophy.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
Attachment behavior
Ethics
Psychology and philosophy
Virtue
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Attachment and Character: Attachment Theory, Ethics, and the Developmental Psychology of Vice and Virtue
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • References
  • 1: Attachment Theory and Moral Development
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Précis of Attachment Theory
  • 3. Security of Attachment and Moral Development
  • 3.1 Self-regulation and emotion regulation
  • 3.2 Social problem-solving and conflict avoidance with peers
  • 3.3 Emotion understanding and empathy
  • 3.4 Conscience and the moral self
  • 3.5 Prosocial behaviour
  • 3.6 Interim conclusion
  • 4. Toward an Attachment Perspective to Moral Development
  • 4.1 Developing a premoral sensibility
  • 4.2 From premoral to moral
  • 5. Concluding Comments
  • References
  • 2: Dimensions, Determinants, and Development of Prosocial Behaviour: A Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis on Attachment and Moral Character
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is Prosocial Behaviour?
  • 2.1 Evolutionary explanations of prosociality
  • 2.2 Development of prosocial behaviour
  • 3. Determinants of prosocial behaviour
  • 3.1 Genes for generosity?
  • 3.2 Benevolent brains?
  • 3.3 Enduring environmental influence: parenting
  • 3.4 Concurrent environmental influence: nudges
  • 3.5 Differential susceptibility
  • 4. Stimulating prosociality
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • 3: Attachment, the Virtues, and the Vices: Some Developmental and Conceptual Considerations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aristotle, the Virtues and the Vices
  • 3. Attachment Theory and Research
  • 4. Current Evidence Regarding the Origins of Social and Antisocial Behaviours
  • 5. Why might Early Secure Attachment Lay the Foundations for the Virtues and Insecure or Disorganized Attachment Create Risk for the Vices?
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • 4: The Evolved Nest, Virtue, and Vice
  • 1. The Setting
  • 2. The Diagnosis
  • 3. And now?
  • 4. Virtue Development in Communities that Provide the Evolved Nest
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: The Virtues of Attachment
  • 1. Introduction: A Tale of Two Mothers
  • 2. Aristotelian Naturalism: A Sketch
  • 3. Attachment Theory: A Sketch
  • 4. Attached to Virtue?
  • 4.1 Scenario One: a question of development
  • 4.2 Scenario Two: the good life and achieved excellence
  • 4.3 Scenario Three: competing conceptions of the virtues
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • 6: Beyond Virtue: The Development of Reproductive Strategies
  • 1. A Modern, Evolutionary Perspective
  • 2. Psychological Views of Human Nature and the Perfectibility of Man
  • 2.1 Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization
  • 2.2 Erik Erikson's eight stages of development
  • 2.3 John Bowlby's attachment theory
  • 3. Evolutionary Challenge: Reproductive Strategies
  • 3.1 The puberty hypothesis
  • 3.2 Beyond the puberty hypothesis
  • 4. Conclusion

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