The role of character in ethical decision-making

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-57

  Bhuyan, Nisigandha ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

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EID: 36849049312     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-007-9063-y     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. See Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, vol.2, ed. Jonathan Barnes (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton. University Press, 1984), 1105a 28-b1, p. 956.
2. See Patrick R. Frierson, Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003) p. 49.
3. Aristotle, op. cit, 1144a 5, p. 1034.
4. Ibid., 1144b 30, p. 1036.
5. See Gilbert Harman, "Moral Psychology Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 99 (1998-1999);
6. Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition: Making Sense of People (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999);
7. J. Dories, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
8. See also, Stanley Milgram, "Behavioral Study of Obedience," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67 (1963).
9. See A. M. Isen, & P. F. Levin, "Effects of Feeling Good on Helping: Cookies and Kindness," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21 (1972).
10. Gilbert Harman, "No Character or Personality," ?Business Ethics Quarterly 13 (2003), p. 91.
11. See J. M. Darley "How Organizations Socialize Individuals into Evildoing," in Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics, eds. D. M. Messick and A. E. Tenbrunsel (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996), pp. 13-43.
12. Ibid., p. 15.
13. See Edwin, M. Hartman, Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
14. See Robert C. Solomon, "Victims of Circumstances'? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business," Business Ethics Quarterly, 13 (1) (2003)
15. and Edwin M. Hartman, "An Aristotelian Approach to Moral Imagination," Professional Ethics, 8 (2000).
16. Also see, David. Luban, "Integrity: Its Causes and Cures," Fordham Law Review, 72 (2003).
17. Robert C. Solomon, "Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business," Business Ethics Quarterly, 13 (1) (2003), p. 51.
18. See David Luban, op. cit., p. 296.
19. See H. Harsthrone and M. A. May, Studies in the Nature of Character, I: Studies in Deceit (New York: Macmillan, 1928)
20. and T. M. Newcomb, The Consistency of Certain Extrovert-Introvert Behavior Patterns in 51 Problem Boys (New York: Columbia University Teachers College Bureau of Publications, 1929).
21. See Nafsika Athanassoulis, "A Response to Harman: Virtue Ethics and Character Traits," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 100(2) (2000).
22. See Z. Kunda, Social Cognition: Making Sense of People (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), p. 435.
23. I would like to thank Thomas W. Dunfee, Edwin Hartman, Nien-hê Hsieh, Bijoy H. Boruah, and Thomas Magnell for all their help.