Charles R. Lightner

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Dan P. McAdams, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. McAdams proposes that the development of virtue can be understood via a three-part model that traces t...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Ross A. Thompson, Professor of Psychology at The University of California at Davis, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. Thompson reviews “the results of recent studies relevant to the development of virtuous character in...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at The University of Notre Dame, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. Narvaez approaches the question of cultivating virtue from a very different perspective from those we’ve seen i...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Jennifer A. Herdt, Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. Professor Herdt opens her paper with an acknowledgement of the importance of virtue in the Christian tradition...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Elizabeth M. Bucar, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northeastern University, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. Professor Bucar analyzes the writing of “one exemplary Islamic figure: the tenth-century thinke...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Owen Flanagan, Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. Professor Flanagan opens his paper with a conveniently clear pointer: “This is my topic. Budd...

In his paper on the “Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics” which we discussed in a recent post, Professor Slingerland, in his conclusion, makes the following statement: “…the early Confucian form of virtue ethics seems as if it could survive even the strongest and most plausible form of the situationist critique, which means that proclamations of the death of virtue...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Edward Slingerland, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. The first part of Slingerland’s paper discusses situationism and the “situationist critiqu...

Material quoted here is drawn from the paper by Christine Swanton, professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, which was published in “Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Psychology” edited by Nancy E. Snow, Oxford University Press, 2015. The two problems for virtue ethics that Swanton addresses in this paper are: ...