Stability and Openness of Character

Southern Journal of Philosophy 49 (s1):208-213 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper clarifies how stability of character is a good thing and how it is related to being open to change for the better by considering four ways character can be stable or unstable and four stable characteristics that are forms of openness to improvement of character.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00068.x

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

On character: essays.James Q. Wilson - 1991 - Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
Evil behaviour and character: Virtue ethics versus social psychology.Sandrine Berges - 2002 - In Diane Medlicott (ed.), Their Deeds were Evil: Understanding Atrocity, Ferocity and Extreme Crime. Rodopi.
The self as resolution: Heidegger, Derrida and the intimacy of the question of the meaning of being.John Russon - 2008 - Research in Phenomenology 38 (1):90-110.
The Big Five and Organizational Virtue.Dennis J. Moberg - 1999 - Business Ethics Quarterly 9 (2):245-272.
A diagnostic of emerging openness equipment.Colin Koopman, Mary Murrell & Tom Schilling - manuscript
Taking Affective Explanations to Heart.Julien Deonna & Fabrice Teroni - 2009 - Social Science Information 48 (3):359-377.
Character.Joel Kupperman - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The indispensability of character.Joel J. Kupperman - 2001 - Philosophy 76 (2):239-250.
Harman Vs. Virtue Theory.Chris Tucker - 2004 - Southwest Philosophy Review 21 (1):137-145.
Stable and retrievable options.Wlodzimierz Rabinowicz - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (4):624-641.
Social psychology, moral character, and moral fallibility.Lorraine Besser-Jones - 2008 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2):310–332.
Imagining from the inside.Anna Christina Ribeiro - unknown
The Elements of Character.Richard Bondi - 1984 - Journal of Religious Ethics 12 (2):201 - 218.
Aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity in environmental conservation.Emily Brady - 2002 - Environmental Ethics 24 (1):75-91.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-09-05

Downloads
42 (#370,011)

6 months
3 (#992,474)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Openness and stability.Alan Cottey - 2016 - AI and Society 31 (3):319-325.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references