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The Evolution of Ethics

Human Sociality and the Emergence of Ethical Mindedness

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Evolved Human Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 3-18
    3. Flourishing and the Function Argument

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 19-41
    4. Evolved Human Nature

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 42-63
  3. Human Sociality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. Attachment and Friendship

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 67-94
    3. Intersubjectivity and Identity

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 95-130
    4. Imitation and the Intricacies of Knowledge

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 131-161
    5. Cooperation, Trust, and Justice

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 162-197
    6. The Most Political Animals and Shared Identity

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 234-266
    7. Conflict, Hierarchy, Social Order, and Status

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 267-303
  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
    2. An Aristotelian Theory of Natural Ethics

      • Blaine J. Fowers
      Pages 307-344
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 345-385

About this book

In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Miami, USA

    Blaine J. Fowers

About the author

Blaine Fowers is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami, USA. His scholarship centers on applying Aristotle's ethics to psychological theory, research, and practice. He studies goal pursuit, flourishing, and virtue. Fowers is a co-author of Re-envisioning Psychology and the author of Virtue and Psychology and Beyond the Myth of Marital Happiness.

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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