Virtue Acquisition: The Paradox of Striving

Autor/in	Snow, Nancy
Titel	Virtue Acquisition: The Paradox of Striving
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 45 (2016) 2, S.179-191 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2016.1181617
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Philosophy; Moral Development; Conceptual Tempo; Self Concept; Metacognition; Transformative Learning; Behavior Change; Standards; Achievement Need; Attitude Change; Spiritual Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Philosophie; Moralische Entwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Pädagogische Transformation; Standard; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung
Abstract	Aristotelian-inspired accounts of virtue acquisition stress guided practice and habituated action to develop virtue. This emphasis on action can lead to the "paradox of striving". The paradox occurs when we try too hard to act well and thereby spoil our efforts. I identify four forms of striving--forcing, impulsivity, overthinking, and holding oneself to too high a standard--and explain how they can cause our actions to miss the virtuous mark. Though neo-Aristotelians can offer remedies for these ills, I turn in the rest of this article to explore an approach to virtue inspired by the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi stresses receptivity to personal transformation and turning inward through meditative practice as ways in which we can attain the inner states needed for virtuous action. In consequence, a Gandhian approach offers a rather different analysis of the paradox of striving than that given by neo-Aristotelianism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01