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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The Personal, Psychological, Philosophical, Educational and Historical Contexts of Positive Psychology; 1.1. The personal context; 1.2. The psychological context; 1.3. The philosophical context; 1.4. The educational context; 1.5. The historical context; 2 Happiness and the Virtues; 2.1. Three accounts of happiness; 2.2. Positive psychologists on happiness; 2.3. Measuring happiness; 2.4. Positive psychology's virtue project; 2.5. An individualist bias in positive psychology? |
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3 Personality and the Virtues3.1. Positive psychology on moral character versus personality; 3.2. Personality and the five-factor model ('the big five'); 3.3. The five-factor model: empirical evidence and some initial criticisms; 3.4. The five-factor model, morality and selfhood; 3.5. Lessons for positive psychologists; 4 Moral Ontology and the Virtues; 4.1. The positive psychologists' dilemma; 4.2. Moral realism, anti-realism and hume's two laws; 4.3. Social scientific manifestations of hume's laws; 4.4. Objections to hume's laws; 4.5. Lessons for positive psychologists. |
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5 Moral Motivation and the Virtues5.1. The allure of motivational internalism; 5.2. Motivational internalism-externalism and aristotelian naturalism; 5.3. The internalism-externalism debate; 5.4. Enter aristotle; 5.5. Lessons for positive psychologists; 6 Situations and the Virtues; 6.1. A lacuna in the positive psychology literature; 6.2. The dispositionism-situationism debate in philosophy; 6.3. The dispositionism-situationism debate in psychology; 6.4. What is there in a situation?; 6.5. Lessons for positive psychologists; 7 Conflicts, Practical Wisdom and the Virtues. |
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7.1. Recurring aristotelian criticisms of positive psychology's virtue theory7.2. Aristotelian phronesis; 7.3. The special problem of emotional ambivalence; 7.4. Moral optimality, proportionality and the virtues; 7.5. Lessons for positive psychologists; 8 Positive Experiences and the Virtues; 8.1. The notion of 'positive emotions'; 8.2. Flow; 8.3. Pleasant emotions and the broaden-and-build thesis; 8.4. A test case: classroom emotions; 8.5. Lessons for positive psychologists; 9 Education and the Virtues; 9.1. The nuts and bolts of virtue education, via-style. |
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9.2. The paradox(es) of virtue education9.3. Resiliency and mindfulness; 9.4. Harsh criticisms of positive education; 9.5. Lessons for and from positive education; 10 Concluding Remarks; 10.1. The personal context; 10.2. The psychological context; 10.3. The philosophical context; 10.4. The educational context; 10.5. The historical context; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This is the first book-length philosophical study of positive psychology, with a particular focus on positive education theory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Positive psychology.
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Positive psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kristjánsson, Kristján, 1959- Virtues and vices in positive psychology. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013] 9781107025202 (DLC) 2013009966 (OCoLC)840462980 |
| ISBN |
9781139177818 (electronic book) |
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1139177818 (electronic book) |
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9781461955030 (electronic book) |
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1461955033 (electronic book) |
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9781107025202 (hardback) |
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1107025206 (hardback) |
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