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This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish it from other similar emotional phenomena such as sympathy or compassion The second part focuses on the role that this phenomenon can play on the ethical-moral level. The question is whether empathy is necessary or at least important for morality, and if so, to what extent, in what way and for what reasons. This is an open access book.

Ethics. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Moral development. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Moral Psychology. --- Moral Development.

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Childhood faces humanity with its own deepest and most perplexing questions. An ethics that truly includes the world's childhoods would transcend pre-modern traditional communities and modern rational autonomy with a postmodern aim of growing responsib

Ethics. --- Children. --- Moral development. --- Child welfare --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Moral notions are foundational questions that have commanded deep reflection since antiquity, reflection that psychological science cannot evade, because the moral formation of children is a central concern of parents, schools, and communities charged with educating the next generation. In this respect there are few domains of study more crucial than moral psychology and few topics of greater importance than the development of moral self-identity, of moral character, and of the moral personality. This edited volume features the expertise of pre-eminent scholars in moral personality, self, and identity, such as moral philosophers, personality theorists, developmental psychologists, moral personality researchers, social psychologists, and neuroscientists. It brings together cutting-edge work in moral psychology that illustrates an impressive diversity of theoretical perspectives and methodologies and simultaneously points the way toward promising integrative possibilities.

Moral development --- Judgment (Ethics) --- Psychology --- Philosophy --- Moral development. --- Moral judgment --- Ethics --- Ethical development --- Child psychology --- Moral education --- Faith development --- Philosophy. --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology

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Ethics --- Moral development. --- Ethics. --- Moral development --- Psychology and philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Philosophy and psychology --- Ethical development --- Child psychology --- Moral education --- Faith development --- Psychological aspects.

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness.  Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings.  May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism.  On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related.  May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics.  Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory.  May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.

Moral development. --- Happiness. --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being --- Ethical development --- Child psychology --- Moral education --- Faith development --- Aristotle. --- Aristotle