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Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-integrated Traits
(2016-05-07)
We begin by discussing the elements of properly assessed virtue traits that we are studying, including proper motivation, self-integration, continuity over time, and behavioral manifestation. We are documenting the virtues ...
The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(2016-05-07)
Our project examines the movement among conservative Christians to change the conversation around gender, sexuality, sin and love, and to even affirm LGBT identities and sometimes even same-sex marriage. Using one poignant ...
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More?
(2016-05-06)
Our international project involves interviews with older and younger adults of 4 faith conditions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Agnostic) in 2 countries, Canada and South Korea. Study 1 includes participants from two ...
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 06
(2016-07)
This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ...
The Dignity of Persons and the Value of Uniqueness
(2016-11)
Presidential Address delivered at the one hundred thirteenth Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, IL, on March 4, 2016.
Self, Desire, and Virtue in Romantic Relationships: A Novel Integration of Buddhist Philosophy and Relationship Science
(2016-05-06)
Our project aims to study the interplay of self, desire, virtue, and flourishing in the relational contexts that characterize daily life. This presentation will focus on the initial seeds that have blossomed from deep ...
From 'ordinary' virtue to Aristotelian virtue
(2016-01)
In two earlier papers, I began to explore how “ordinary people” acquire virtue. By “ordinary people,” I mean people, not specifically or directly concerned with becoming virtuous, who have goals or aims the pursuit of ...
Whole trait theory: Does it work for virtue?
(2016-05)
Nearly a century after the first blow landed for the situationist argument, Whole Trait Theory was offered as a new model of traits, one that benefited from the situationists’ points. Whole Trait Theory argued that there ...
Giving from the Heart: The Role of the Heart and the Brain in Virtuous Motivation and Integrity
(2016-05-07)
To what extent and in what way is the self unified? How does its degree of unification lead to or stymie virtuous motivation and action? This project investigates embodied fluency in value-directed-actions and a drive ...