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Comments on Nancy Snow, 'Generativity and Flourishing'
| العنوان: | Comments on Nancy Snow, 'Generativity and Flourishing' |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Kamtekar, Rachana |
| المصدر: | Journal of Moral Education. 2015 44(3):278-283. |
| الإتاحة: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 6 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2015 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Opinion Papers Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Ethics, Personality Traits, Philosophy, Personality Problems, Self Concept, Moral Values, Interpersonal Relationship, Rejection (Psychology) |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057240.2015.1040382 |
| تدمد: | 0305-7240 |
| مستخلص: | In her rich and wide-ranging paper, Nancy Snow argues that there is a virtue of generativity--an other-regarding desire to invest one's substance in forms of life and work that will outlive the self (p. 10). By "virtue" Snow means not just a desirable or praiseworthy quality of a person, but more precisely, as Aristotle defined it, a disposition to respond to certain facts in the world as reasons for acting, guided by a practical wisdom that ensures the appropriateness of these actions to the circumstances (p. 13). Among Snow's reasons for classing generativity as a virtue are the fact that it is necessary (although not sufficient) for flourishing, that it is other-regarding, that it could become dispositional, that it fits into forms of life Aristotle counts as flourishing (p. 14) and that it is a mean between a deficiency (rejectivity, self-absorption and stagnation) and an excess (intense ego-driven desire to leave a legacy) (pp. 15-16). In her response to Snow's "Generativity and Flourishing" (EJ1077701), Rachana Kamtekar points out an ambiguity in Snow's thesis, between the claims that generativity itself is a virtue (p. 12) and that certain expressions of generativity are virtuous (p. 9). If Snow's thesis is the former, Kamtekar doesn't think Aristotle could accept it; if it is the latter, then Kamtekar believes Snow has a closer ally and antecedent in Plato, and in any case some reasons to distance herself from Aristotle. |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2015 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1077710 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/03057240.2015.1040382 |