NDLI: The phenomenology of virtue

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Author	Annas, Julia
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	What is it like to be a good person? I examine and reject suggestions that this will involve having thoughts which have virtue or being a good person as part of their content, as well as suggestions that it might be the presence of feelings distinct from the virtuous person’s thoughts. Is there, then, anything after all to the phenomenology of virtue? I suggest that an answer is to be found in looking to Aristotle’s suggestion that virtuous activity is pleasant to the virtuous person. I try to do this, using the work of the contemporary social psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and his work on the ‘flow experience’. Crucial here is the point that I consider accounts of virtue which take it to have the structure of a practical expertise or skill. It is when we are most engaged in skilful complex activity that the activity is experienced as ‘unimpeded’, in Aristotle’s terms, or as ‘flow’. This experience does not, as might at first appear, preclude thoughtful involvement and reflection. Although we can say what in general the phenomenology of virtue is like, each of us only has some more or less dim idea of it from the extent to which we are virtuous—that is, for most of us, not very much.
Starting Page	21
Ending Page	34
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15687759
Journal	Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Volume Number	7
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728676
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-09-12
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Virtue Practical skill Expertise Pleasure Flow Phenomenology Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Philosophy of Mind Interdisciplinary Studies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Cognitive Neuroscience

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