What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Musschenga, Bert (Editor), van Harskamp, Anton (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 31
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Philosophy, general.

This book addresses the question of what it means to be moral and which capacities one needs to be moral. It questions whether empathy is a cognitive or an affective capacity, or perhaps both. As most moral beings behave immorally from time to time, the authors ask which factors cause or motivate pe...