{"product_id":"moral-character-an-empirical-theory-9780199674350","title":"Moral Character: An Empirical Theory","description":"Christian Miller presents a new account of moral character. Most of our friends, colleagues, and even family members are not virtuous people. They do not have virtues such as compassion, honesty, or courage. But at the same time, they are not vicious people either. They do not have vices such\u003cbr\u003eas cruelty, dishonesty, or cowardice. Instead most people today have characters which do not qualify as either virtuous or vicious. They have many positive moral features, but also many negative ones too. Our characters are decidedly mixed, and are much more complex than we might have thought.\u003cbr\u003eOn the one hand, many of us would kill an innocent person in a matter of minutes under pressure from an authority figure as part of a psychology study. Or we would pretend to not see someone collapse from an apparent heart attack across the street. Or we would make a wide circle around someone's\u003cbr\u003edropped papers rather than stop to help pick them up. Yet it is also true that many of us would help another person when we are by ourselves and hear sounds of a non-ambiguous emergency in the next room. Or we would come to the aid of a friend when feeling empathy for her need, and do so for\u003cbr\u003ealtruistic rather than egoistic reasons. \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMoral Character: An Empirical Theory\u003c\/em\u003e Miller outlines a new picture of our moral character which involves what are called Mixed Character Traits. This picture can help make sense of how most of us are less than virtuous people but also morally better than the vicious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian B. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199674350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian B. Miller, \u003cem\u003eWake Forest University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristian Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eCharacter and Moral Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP forthcoming), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eContinuum Companion to Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e (Continuum 2011) and \u003cem\u003eEssays in the Philosophy of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2006). His work has appeared in such journals as \u003cem\u003eNous\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSocial\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the director of The Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40322455994483,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a2321207-af67-42ac-9a5e-a4c84a34ea65.jpg?v=1659446068","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/moral-character-an-empirical-theory-9780199674350","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}