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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...