Who Engages with Moral Beauty?

Autor/inn/en	Diessner, Rhett; Iyer, Ravi; Smith, Meghan M.; Haidt, Jonathan
Titel	Who Engages with Moral Beauty?
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 42 (2013) 2, S.139-163 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2013.785941
Schlagwörter	Aesthetics; Moral Values; Prosocial Behavior; Personality Traits; Emotional Response; Ethical Instruction; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Political Attitudes; Social Desirability; Correlation; Models; Multiple Regression Analysis; Predictor Variables; Interpersonal Reactivity Index + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ästhetik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Emotionales Verhalten; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Soziales Bedürfnis; Korrelation; Analogiemodell; Prädiktor
Abstract	Aristotle considered moral beauty to be the "telos" of the human virtues. Displays of moral beauty have been shown to elicit the moral emotion of elevation and cause a desire to become a better person and to engage in prosocial behavior. Study 1 ("N" = 5380) shows engagement with moral beauty is related to several psychological constructs relevant to moral education, and structural models reveal that the story of engagement with moral beauty may be considered a story of love and connectedness; it is uniquely predictive of caring for, being empathic of, loving, and valuing benevolence toward others. Study 2 ("N" = 542) demonstrates that the personality trait of engaging with moral beauty moderates susceptibility to elevation. These studies suggest that encouraging students to engage with moral beauty might increase their desire to become better persons and to do good. Convergent with other research showing that moral emotions motivate moral behavior, we suggest that moral education programs increase their focus on developing engagement with moral beauty. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10