Moral Psychology of Envy (eBook)

Sara Protasi (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
248 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6007-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societiesor so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envy's bad reputation is not completely unwarranted; envy can indeed motivate malicious and counterproductive behavior and may strain or even tear apart relations between people. However, that is not always the case. Investigating the complex nature of this emotion reveals that it plays important functions in social hierarchies and it can motivate one to self-improve and even to achieve moral virtue.Philosophers and psychologists in this volume explore envy's characteristics in different cultures, spanning from small hunter-gatherer communities to large industrialized countries, to contexts as diverse as academia, marketing, artificial intelligence, and Buddhism. They explore envy's role in both the personal and the political sphere, showing the many ways in which envy can either contribute or detract to our flourishing as individuals and as citizens of modern democracies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Moral Psychology of the Emotions
• Co-Autor: Alfred Archer, Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera, Ariele Niccoli, Sara Protasi, Felipe Romero, Alan Thomas, Neal A. Tognazzini, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Niels van de Ven, Miriam Bankovsky, Vanessa Carbonell, Christina Chuang, Jan Crusius, Bart Engelen, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran, Alison Duncan Kerr, Jens Lange
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Illustrations including: - 3 Charts; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Behavior • Benign Envy • Desire • Emotions • Emulative Envy • Envy • Envy and Virtue • ethics • Jealousy • Morality • Morality of Envy • Philosophy • Political envy • Psychology • Psychology of Envy • virtue
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-6007-2 / 1538160072
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-6007-7 / 9781538160077