Browsing Moral Self Archive by Title
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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 ... -
The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(2015-03-14)The Motivation to Love is a collaborative, qualitative study of spiritual violence in Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant churches’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Spiritual ... -
The Neuroscience of Habituated Motivation
(2015-03-14)This project brings together neo-Aristotelian theory of motivational habituation and neuro-cognitive models of skill acquisition, in order to explain why it is so difficult to cultivate extended and sophisticated motivational ... -
Performing Virtue
(2016-04)This article was first published as the lead article in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project e-Newsletter 05 (April 2016). -
Personal Projects and the Development of Virtue: How Characteristic Adaptations Enact and Encourage Virtue
(2015-03-13)How does the development of virtue play out in the context of personal projects—key elements of identity in which progress is crucial for well-being—such as those related to relationships, vocation, and self-improvement? ... -
A Personal-Projects Approach to Well-Being and Virtue: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations
(2016-05-07)Philosophical theories of well-being are diverse and often in disagreement, but we believe progress can be made by starting from an assertion that we think all such theories can agree on—namely, that success in at least ... -
Philosophy, Theoretical Psychology, and Empirical Research: Is Mutual Enrichment Possible and Desirable?
(2017-03-10)This presentation was given by Dr. Blaine Fowers and Dr. Bradford Cokelet at the 2017 Annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. It is based on reflections from their own scholarly ... -
Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue
(2015-03-14)According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ... -
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 ... -
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 01
(2015-03)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 02
(2015-07)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 03
(2015-10)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 04
(2016-01)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 05
(2016-04)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 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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 07
(2017-02)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 08
(2017-05)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 09
(2017-08)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 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 10
(2017-11)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 ...