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  1. Aristotle on habit and moral character formation.Manik Konch & Ranjan Kumar Panda - 2018 - International Journal of Ethics Education 4 (1):31-41.
    The habitual action is not only undertaken on a regular basis but also is personalized which has moral significance when we evaluate action and personality. For Aristotle, inculcating virtues through habitual action could develop a moral character. The naturalistic or behaviouristic perspective and the non-naturalistic perspective are two ways to interpret this Aristotelian theoretical position. The naturalistic thesis maintains that habit and character formation is inherently present in the form of disposition in human beings and could be causally related to (...)
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  • Aristotle on habit and moral character formation.Manik Konch & Ranjan Kumar Panda - 2018 - International Journal of Ethics Education 4 (1):31-41.
    The habitual action is not only undertaken on a regular basis but also is personalized which has moral significance when we evaluate action and personality. For Aristotle, inculcating virtues through habitual action could develop a moral character. The naturalistic or behaviouristic perspective and the non-naturalistic perspective are two ways to interpret this Aristotelian theoretical position. The naturalistic thesis maintains that habit and character formation is inherently present in the form of disposition in human beings and could be causally related to (...)
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  • Can evolutionary psychology learn from the instinct debate?Simon J. Hampton - 2006 - History of the Human Sciences 19 (4):57-74.
    The concept of instinct espoused in psychology in the early 20th century and the contemporary concept of psychological adaptation invite comparison. Definitions of both employ the notions of inheritance, selection, functional specificity, and species typicality. This article examines how psychologists before the rise of behaviourism sought to establish instinct as a psychological phenomenon. One of the consequences of doing so was a decoupling of psychological and physiological forms of instinct. This led to a failure of constraint in the usage of (...)
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  • Nature as Nurture: Behaviorism and the Instinct Doctrine.R. J. Herrnstein - 1998 - Behavior and Philosophy 26 (1/2):73 - 107.