Book contents
- The Science of Virtue
- The Science of Virtue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophical Resources and Prospects
- Part II Psychological Resources and Prospects
- Chapter 3 Toward Reconciling the Fragmentation of Virtue Science
- Chapter 4 Moral Development and Virtue
- Chapter 5 Personality and Virtue
- Chapter 6 The Place of Values in Virtue Science
- Part III Organizing Virtue Research with the STRIVE-4 Model
- Part IV The Science and Practice of Virtue
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - The Place of Values in Virtue Science
from Part II - Psychological Resources and Prospects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- The Science of Virtue
- The Science of Virtue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophical Resources and Prospects
- Part II Psychological Resources and Prospects
- Chapter 3 Toward Reconciling the Fragmentation of Virtue Science
- Chapter 4 Moral Development and Virtue
- Chapter 5 Personality and Virtue
- Chapter 6 The Place of Values in Virtue Science
- Part III Organizing Virtue Research with the STRIVE-4 Model
- Part IV The Science and Practice of Virtue
- References
- Index
Summary
The central concern in this chapter is on the place of values and morality in virtue science. Since the advent of psychology, a strict fact–value dichotomy has predominated, with almost all investigators adopting a disengaged observer stance. This dichotomy has been repeatedly critiqued by communitarians, hermeneuticists, philosophers, and psychologists. Few, if any, systematic defenses of the fact–value dichotomy exist. This chapter combines many of the strands of fact–value critique in a neo-Aristotelian position that emphasizes that science is, itself, value-imbued because it aims at a set of goods (e.g., knowledge, human welfare). The chapter concludes by suggesting how values and morality can be included in virtue science and psychology in a frank and illuminating manner. In support of this position, it enumerates four advantages of value inclusion, paramount among them that values can then be explicitly discussed and evaluated. Values can be fruitfully incorporated into virtue and psychological sciences by making the values explicit and including discussions and critiques of those views in open intellectual discourse (e.g., peer review).
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- The Science of VirtueA Framework for Research, pp. 150 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024